There's already a bug out on this, but I thought I'd also make mention of this in the newsgroup as I believe this to be critical.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116443 I recently moved a friend of mine on over to Mozilla Mail and off of Netscape 4.7x. Things went pretty smoothly with the transition all in all. The usual hiccups of things being in different places and all that to get through. Some moaning about lack of a spell check, but that was the worst of it. Then a few days ago the BadTrans virus ended up in his mail. After many months of badgering him about not clicking on attachments I'm quite certain he didn't. The anti-virus software running (InnoculateIT) saw the nasty coming in and warned him about it. Certainly not the first virus he's had coming at him. Somewhere in this, his entire inbox was wiped clean, along with one other folder, seemingly at random. He's got a lot of folders. After about a day of sending out E-Mails to people to please resend anything recent he was back up and running again. Things were going pretty good for a few days. Then the other day he was just switching between one of his archived folders and the inbox. Poof, all gone! No more inbox, and one other folder wiped clean. This time no trace of the data, and not even so much as a dialog box. Didn't even get a feedback trace as there was no crash to instigate one. I wanted to get this up on the newsgroup here as this is about a real world a situation as I can think of. This user is not a power user by any means, but he does get quite a lot of E-Mail going in and out. He's lost some critical E-mail that he hadn't even had a chance to read yet, much less backup. I've got egg all over my face for even suggesting that he try Mozilla as a mail client. Spent the better part of the other day going over both Pegasus and Eurdora as an alternative for this user. Finally managed to convert everything on over to Eudora for him. I'm using KMail under FreeBSD, so not so much a concern for myself. Some learning pains here and there, but otherwise things are once again going well for this user. Eudora's addressing is kind of hokey compared to Moz, but otherwise excels in most other areas of importance in dealing with E-Mail. Data integrity being the most notable. I fully realize this is going to be taken by some on this group as a flame or just a troll. Perhaps it is, but it's also an honest story of my efforts in advocating Mozilla as a mail client. I know full well that most folks haven't had this kind of data loss with Mozilla, and I really don't know why this one user had the experience he did. I do know that this user isn't going to be trying Mozilla for E-Mail anytime soon, and this one time advocate is feeling really gun shy about doing so in the future. Later on, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
