Re: OT: Mozilla lost tons of email

Joerg wrote:
Hello Folks,

Running Mozilla 1.7.3 and this morning it suddenly showed a very small Inbox. From the thousands of emails in there all but 30 or so have vanished. The Inbox file still has the large size it always had so they must be there (somewhere...) but they just won't show anymore. Instead, there was a strange empty and unopened "email" with a 1969 date, nothing in its message body, no subject, nada. Tried "View-All", nothing. Anybody have a clue what happened or what to do?

Mozilla also keeps index files in teh same directory. Thay have a similar name to teh folde rbut append .idx, I think. Maybe Windows hides them, I don't know.

If you delete those, Mozilla will re-create the index when it accesses the mailbox.

Make a backup first. I've done this in the past, but can give no guarantees.

Or load a copy of the mailbox in some word processor. The mailbox file itself is just a big file with messages concatenated with some kind of separator in between messages. Hard to navigate but easy to search.


Thomas
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