On 08 Oct 2002, it is alleged that Wendy Nicholls sauntered in to 
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:

> did you ever get help with this?  I suspect it's a similar answer to what
> I'm seeking as to how to move/migrate/import all of my vers 4.n mail and
> bookmarks and news over to vers 7.  I'd held off moving to the newer
> versions because of these type problems months ago.
> 
> thanks.....
> 
> Jeff W wrote:
> 
>> Hi - I "sync" my mail between work and home by taking work-related mail
>> home in a netscape mail folder.  I literally put the messages (there's
>> only a few of them) into a folder, and then find the folder, copy it to
>> a floppy, bring it home, put it in a netscape mail directory, and let
>> Netscape 'find' it next time it starts up.  I've been doing this
>> successfully since Netscape 4.0x.  However, I tried it for the first
>> time with Netscape 7 last weekend, and only 4 of the 8 messages in the
>> file were visible at the other (otherwise identical) Netscape 7
>> installation.  Is this supposed to work?  What could have corrupted the
>> file?
>>
>> any/all thoughts appreciated
>> /j

Chances are that deleting the MSF (mail summary file) associated with the 
folder should clear up the problem. . . .

/b.

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