barney wrote: > AC wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>Mozilla forgets mail and news settings since the build 0.9.6 and the >>problem persists with 0.9.7. The problem started at least two weeks >>after the 0.9.6 installation. Since then, I have to go through the mail >>and news setup process almost everytime I "start Windows". I tried a new >>profile, but that did not help either. I searched newsgroups and some >>Mozilla/Netscape-related sites but have not encountered anything like >>that reported before. (OS: W2K SP2.) >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>Regards, >>AC >> >> >> > > This might be caused by sharing profiles between different versions, or > installing a new build on top of an older one. Incompatibilities > between builds do exist, mainly due to "improvements" in newer builds. > You might try completely uninstalling, removing old application and > profile directories, and starting over. > >
Hi Barney, I think that you have a good point there. However, I always completely uninstall the previous version before installing the new one since Netscape's earliest days (1.1b3 if I recall correctly). Then I replace the new and empty mail files with the previous version's mail files and keep going. I was thinking that doing this with Mozilla builds will someday cause a headache. But Mozilla does not have an option to import its own mail files. Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora are the only options. I doesn't let me export them to another format to import back, either. I did NOT have this problem from the build 0.9.0 through 0.9.6. Everything was very smooth despite the horror stories I have been reading in Netscape and Mozilla newsgroups and I was thinking that I was doing the right thing. The source of the problem could be that or something else, but I still can not figure it out. Perhaps, if someone could tell me how to import the previous version's mail files into a brand new installation, that would be the remedy. Thanks, AC
