On 21 Aug 2002, it is alleged that joe sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> I had a major blow out with Mozilla Mail 1.1 (2002082008). I downloaded
> the latest nitely build to test and see if some of the bugs I was
> testing were fixed. I surfed around on major sites to check the table
> rendering and things looked good. I then went into preferences and
> cleared the history and the cache. I launched Mozilla Mail and instead
> of seeing my mail and newsgroup accounts I get the account wizzard
> asking me to add a new account!
>
> When I checked the mail and newsgroup data files it looked as though
> everything was there but possibly in a corrupted state now? Any idea if
> it is possible to fix this corruption? What a bummer. I thought the mail
> corruption bug was fixed.
>
> -mark
Let's guess: prefs.js has been reset to its default values, right? If so -
- and assuming you have no back-up of it kicking around -- , you're pretty
much gonna have to recreate each account and monkey a bit with your
mailboxes to get it all back up and running.
This has come up some detail in the first two user groups 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.
