Re: more mailbox data

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:23:42 -0400


"Garst R. Reese" wrote:
> This time I backed up my Inbox before booting a new kernel---2.3.18ac10.
> Sure enough, when I start Netscape, 2 weeks of mail did not appear. I
> diffed Inbox and Inbox.bak and there were no differences. I shutdown
> Netscape and restarted it and magically all of my mail returned. Weird
> eh?

There may be lingering corruption in the .summary files. I typically
erase and rebuild them just to make sure things are sane.

find nsmail -type f -name '.*.summary' | xargs rm

ac10 and Netscape Mail are working ok for me so far (knock on wood).

Jeff

-- 
Custom driver development	|    Never worry about theory as long
Open source programming		|    as the machinery does what it's
				|    supposed to do.  -- R. A. Heinlein

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/