On 17 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Bill Sheppard sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> I've got a strange situation. I've been running 1.1a very stably on
> Win98SE since it was released. I'm using IMAP. All of a sudden, since
> Monday, changes I make to my Inbox aren't being saved. Here are some
> symptoms.
>
> - All messages received since sometime Monday are redownloaded each time
> I restart Mozilla.
> - If I label an email, then exit and restart Mozilla, the label is gone.
> - Several emails I deleted show up again when I restart Mozilla, then
> are redeleted once Mozilla opens the IMAP folders and downloads new
> messages.
>
> Basically, it's acting as if the .MSF file isn't being updated, or is
> somehow corrupt. I don't want to delete the MSF file, as my
> understanding is this will delete all label information.
>
> The only thing unusual which happened Monday is I did some offline work
> (reading and labelling, no deleting). Any ideas? I'm not sure what to
> search for on Bugzilla.
>
> Bill
Off-hand, the behaviour you're describing is consistent with a corrupt .msf
file, so the solution would appear to be to delete the .msf file. However,
you're right: deleting the MSF file will also delete the labelling
information. :-(
BTW, user questions are best directed to one of the fora listed below.
/b.
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Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to:
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix
Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
