hello, I have a serious problem with IMAP and NS4.7 on Linux and I am hoping someone will tell me this bug does not occur with mozilla or NS6.2. If you have seen it please say so.
Using netscape 4.7x with IMAP-UW and now IMAPS-2000 over the past couple of years, I have noticed that when a user tries to delete an email from their Sent folder and the email had attachment(s), which were deleted beforw they attempted to delete the email, Netscape goes absolutely beserk. It cannot be closed or quit and the disk I/O churns so hard the system rapidly becomes unusable. Switching to a virtual console quickly and executing killall -9 netscape-communicator will stop it. Since the IMAP server was on the same system as the client both times I have witnessed this I can't say for sure exactly what is causing the diak thrashing. But killing netscape is absolutely necessary as it's hung up. I both cases I have not created any extra folders on the IMAP server beyond the default incoming mail file. (/var/spool/mail/username). Also all the user has to do experience the disk attack again is try to open their Sent or Trash folders. First, can someone tell me that this crap doesn't happen under NS6.2 or Mozilla? Basically, can I upgrade the system to make this go away? Secondly, since the problem awaits the users if they open Sent or Trash , what is the safe way to repair the ns_imap folders ? Delete the affected Summaries or remove the ns_imap directory entirely and let Netscape recreate it?
