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[Fwd: Aargh! Anyone know how to repair Netscape Mail?]

Oops, meant to send this reply to the whole list yesterday instead of
just to Joe.  Would have wasted a lot less of your time.  Anyway, thanks

to all who responded.

By the way, I think the fact that I had "compressed" the mail was
responsible for some of the problem.  I occasionally do this by mistake
when I'm trying to invoke another menu option.  What does Netscape mail
compression actually do, and is there any way to undo it?


Joseph F. Moore wrote:

> You could try "cut"ing the mailbox.  The file is stored as plain text,
> edit it in your favorite editor, look for a line about 1/2 way through,
> that starts with "From <blahblahblah>".  Delete everything after it, and
> save it as Inbox1.  Delete everything before that and call it Inbox2.
>
> This should give you two inboxes, with about 1/2 the messages in each.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Steve Cohen wrote:
>
> > I'm an inveterate pack rat.  I have a hard time getting rid of Email
> > messages.  Last time I looked my Inbox had over 5000 messages.  I should
> > get rid of 99% of the them, but who the heck has time?
> >
> > Now I find that I couldn't even get into Netscape mail.  Netscape just
> > quits on me whenever I try.  I suppose I should take the hint and just
> > delete my Inbox and start over.  What I did was simply rename the inbox,
> > so I can theoretically bring it back to life if someone out there knows
> > how to "help" me and can tell me.
> >
> >

Actually, it was easier than that.

I simply renamed my inbox folder to inbox-crap.  Then I restarted Netscape,
which created a new, empty Inbox folder for me.  I could then open the
inbox-crap folder and it created a new index since it didn't find one and I
could read the old messages.  Now I can sort through these things at my
leisure and get rid of the 99% I don't need to save, without starting from a
baseline of 5000 messages.  A little faster to load, too.