Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path

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From: nextoneroot Operator
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:08

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One of my accounts managed to make its Mail.app inaccessible by setting a  
wrong path to the Mailboxes directory. Everytime Mail.app starts it  
displays an alert window about the problem but leaves no choice other than  
quit. No menues, thus no way to change preferences!

I searched the filesystem for apparent configuration files; no success.
I also searched the manuals and I didn,t find a hint.

As I know, there is nothing like a foolproof software as the fools are  
much too inventive, but I think it s a bad trick to allow a parameter to  
be set by anyone and then provide no easy way to mend the damage done.

Any hints or advice to mend the problem?

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Message-ID: <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org>

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!pilhuhn!nextone!root

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!pilhuhn!nextone!root
From: nextone!root (Operator)
Subject: Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path
Message-ID: <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: root@nidat.sub.org (Operator)
Organization: Nitezki Datensysteme, Kraichtal, Germany
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:08:56 GMT
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