> I'd assume so, since she says she is using Netscape 7.0 :-) Just checking, you could use any client with Netscape Navigator, not necessarily communicator.
> 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. I've not used Netscape for some time but mail folders generally were saved as text files with the extension *.msf or *.nsf IIRC as stated above so a search on a Windows PC for *.nsf or *.msf would find all files with that extension. It's unlikely that you have lost the information all together it's just not showing up in communicator or whatever they call it these days! > 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). As above! John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received an email in error please notify Carmel College on [EMAIL PROTECTED] then delete all copies of it from your systems. Although Carmel College scans incoming and outgoing emails and email attachments for viruses we cannot guarantee a communication to be free of all viruses nor accept any responsibility for viruses. Although Carmel College monitors incoming and outgoing emails for inappropriate content, the college cannot be held responsible for the views or expressions of the author. The views expressed may not necessarily be those of Carmel College and Carmel College cannot be held responsible for any loss or injury resulting from the contents of a message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
