Re: Aargh! Anyone know how to repair Netscape Mail?

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 01:04 PM 12/12/98 -0500, Wandered Inn wrote:
 
>First, I would remove the .*.summary files under your netscape mail
>tree, then try and open email again.

No, no, NO. NEVER remove anything. Rename it. You may want it back.
Especially since (as I recall) the Netscape summary file marks
messages as read or unread.

>Once you've renamed your inbox, does Netscape email come up?  You can
>read a Netscape mailbox with elm or other standard Unix mail reader,
>it's the same format.  You might try using one of them to reduce the
>size of the email box.

Yes, it's in the standard UNIX file format. However, like Eudora,
it uses other files (such as the summary file) for indexing,
so be careful about editing it. If the two get out of sync,
things could get ugly.

--Brett