FC4 -- Mozilla Mail 1.7.12 Trashes Inbox

[Robert L Cochran]

chris mohler wrote:

>
>
> On 6/7/06, *Robert L Cochran* <cochranb at speakeasy.net 
> <mailto:cochranb at speakeasy.net>> wrote:
>
>     This evening, I started Mozilla 1.7.12 under Fedora Core 4 and
>     immediately clicked Window, Mail and Newsgroups to start Mozilla Mail
>     just as I always did. It started up and then did something new to me:
>     the Inbox viewers (both right-side panes) didn't fill up with a
>     list of
>     old emails as usual, and instead stayed blank. The hourglass stayed on
>     for a while, about 60 seconds. Suddenly, ever email I have in the
>     inbox
>     between 02/22/2006 and now is trashed!
>
>     Only Inbox seems to be affected. The other folders seem okay.
>
>     I admit I had over 5000 emails in Inbox.
>
>     Is this a known issue? What's the fix for it if so?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bob Cochran
>
>
> I had thunderbird do something similar once - look in ~/.mozilla or 
> wherever mozilla keeps the mailbox files and see if the old inbox is 
> still there - if so, you should be able to copy the affected mailbox 
> somewhere and repair it, or extract the messages from it.
>
> This is the page I used to fix my TB problem. (part II)
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
>

Thanks, Chris. I haven't made a backup of my mail files since March 18 
so this experience motivated me to get real busy with tar and mkisofs. 
I'm eating humble pie tonight. Were you going to provide a web page link 
for fixing your Thunderbird problem? I don't see it there and will be 
glad to have it.

Thanks

Bob Cochran