Completely ot but maybe interesting! (Repairing mail folders)

[Smits, Eduard]

Hello David,

THANKS!!! Yeah it did work!! I didn't even know the bit about compacting the
folders (what do ya mean to little time?). Glad I didn't threw the Mail folder
away yet, it's completely repaired again. My compacted inbox is 9Mb now. Boy
did it help! Thanks again and may the force be with ya.

Regards, Ed

PS. I've also cc'ed the message to my mailing lists maybe other people can use
this info too.

"Smits, Eduard" wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: ot question DX7
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:59:43 -0500
> From: "David Max" <david_max at myself.com>
> To: "Smits, Eduard" <esmits.hienfeld at atriserv.nl>
>
> I'm not a Netscape user myself, but I might be able to offer some help
> in
> recovering your email. I use Eudora at home, which I think shares one
> important feature with Netscape which is that email is stored in unix
> "mbox"
> format. In other words, you email folders are stored on disk as a big
> long
> text file which has special "From" lines that indicate the beginning of
> a
> new message. In order to give you rapid access to your email, the
> Netscape
> creates an index file which can allow it to easily find any message
> within
> your 24MB email files. If this index or mail file should become
> corrupted,
> the index to your email messages will point to the wrong places and will
> give the appearance that everything is corrupted even if it is only a
> small
> piece. If this happens with Eudora, the proper remedy is to delete the
> index
> file which forces Eudora to regenerate it. Netscape may work similarly.
> If
> this works, however, you may find that some messages that you thought
> were
> deleted will reappear since usually a message that you delete is simply
> marked as deleted in the index and the message is not actually removed
> until
> you compact your mailbox.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> - David Max
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dx7-help at byrd.math.uga.edu [mailto:dx7-help at byrd.math.uga.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Smits, Eduard
> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 10:26 AM
> > To: Tom Baldwin
> > Cc: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl; dx7 at byrd.math.uga.edu
> > Subject: ot question DX7
> >
> >
> > Hello Tom,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. I hope you're willing to make me and a lot of
> > other DX7II owners very happy. So in effect I hope you're willing to put
> > up your E! card for cloning. If you're not willing, equal good friends
> > (this is a translation of a dutch saying and I don't think/know if this
> > is good english, sorry). Please contact the person who's going to do the
> > cloning, it's "The OldCrow" his email address is oldcrow at oldcrows.net,
> > you will see he's a very skilled DIY man. Anyway thanks for your reply.
> >
> > BTW this ot  is for all you folks out there: My email crashed, I use
> > Netscape Communicator 4.7 and my Inbox was about 24Mb. This morning I
> > looked in my Inbox and there were "holes" between the messages, weired I
> > thought. Shut down Netscape, started it again and it couldn't read in
> > the Inbox anymore, totally messed up. So if I don't reply to a message
> > one of you sent me, it's not out of malice but just dumb computer
> > mess-up. I did have a backup but I lost all messages off this morning,
> > about 80, and all messages of friday, saterday and sunday. I did respond
> > to this messages though. I hope this isn't gonna happen to often. Anyone
> > of you has had problems like this with Netscape to?
> >
> > I've been so inpolite to never introduce myself, I've been lurking at
> > the background for a few months and saw very interesting information and
> > discussions. Well I give a short introduction now and hope I'm forgivven
> > (as well as for the introduction as being so late with it). I'm 39,
> > almost 40, have a wife, two kids (daughters), a dog (Shar-Pei) and work
> > in the ICT. I used to be a electronic DIY'er and trying to pick it up
> > again lately. Got way to little time for it though, just got to much
> > hobby's. In my student days, I studied HTS Elektrotechniek (higher
> > technical school for electrotechnics, don'r know what the equivalent is
> > in the USA), I built a modular the Elektor Formant. Being a student and
> > ever poor at that moment, in moment of insanity and money-need I sold
> > the Formant. But I think one off these days I'm gonna build a new
> > modular, at least keep up my knowledge of things and put it off to my
> > retirement. Thanks for all the info and hopefully (but seen the vast
> > knowledge of you guys I don't think I stand much chance) I can
> > contribute something to.
> >
> > Regards to all of you (and in this case especially to Tom),
> >
> > Ed(uard) Smits, Rozengaard 1622, 8212DM Lelystad, Netherlands
> >