Samuel A. Rogers wrote: > > Some how some folders (a few not all) have become unreadable. I am able > to read the file (through more on linux) that has the messages in them > but Mozilla say it can find the file. It looks like the .msf file has > either gotten corrupted or losted. Now how can I recover from it? > > I am on Linux RH 7.2 > Mozilla 9.9+ > > Regards, > > Sam. > > P.S. > I do not like this .msf file. Since it is in some form of database > format it is unreadable to me. I don't know how to make an entry or > remove an mail index from it.
OK....use 'rm *.msf' in the mail directory with Mozilla TOTALLY inactive. When it restarts the mail and news client, it'll rebuild the msf index files. I suppose MSF is "Mail Summary File", but if I'm wrong, it's no biggie. -- to reply via e-mail, remove "nospam." from domain name.
