On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:29:05PM +0100, John Whittingham wrote: > > Oh great, now I was futzing around trying to set up a sub filter > > under PDML folder for GFM on this new computer and suddenly all the > > mail in all the folders except my main inbox folder disappeared. > > > > I'm using Netscape 7.0 > > > > also, > > > > The inbox is under my annsan on nyc.rr.com folder > > and I really wanted ALL my mail in the local mail box... > > > > any ideas? > > > > Did I really delete all that mail by accident ? or is it there and hiding? > > What is your email client? Netscape? > > John
I'd assume so, since she says she is using Netscape 7.0 :-) With 7.0 and later, Netscape got a lot more aggressive in their mail handling. It used to be the case that you could open up a mail file (not a message - the mail file containing an entire "folder") using a text editor, change things around, and write out a new file. Try that with Netscape 7.0 and the folder just seems to vanish from the Netscape folder list; while the file is still there, it presumably fails some consistency check. Not a bad thing in some ways - there were too many ways to abuse the free edit capability - but annoying. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that renaming folders only works if you do it from inside Netscape, too. Ann - if you did anything (renaming, etc.) outside Netscape, undo it, and then try renaming, etc. from inside the Netscape email window. Oh, just one other thing - make sure your email options are set to "show all messages", not "show unread messages" (that's done in a drop-down box at the top of the folder message list, I believe). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
