Mail.app and Active.mbox

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#1826

Author: PETER SEIDL 510-486-7653
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:02

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After a disappointing experience upgrading to 3.0 (another sad story), 
I just ran into the following problem with the Mail application:

I normally have Mail autolaunched at log-in, but now it bombs 
immediately.  The problem seems to be associated with trying to open 
my Active.mbox. Here are some observations:

1-  I can launch Mail by double clicking on other mailboxes.  But if 
I try to open Active.mbox thru the Mailboxes button, it kills Mail.

2- If I launch mail from a shell, here's what happens:
next1> /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail 
Bus error

3-  other users (root) on the same machine don't have this problem 
with their own mailbox.

4- I can open the troublesome Active.mbox using the unix mail utility, ie:
next1> mail -f /Users/seidl/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
Mail version 5.3 2/18/88.  Type ? for help.
"/Users/seidl/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox": 668 messages 664 new 665 unread
>N  1 Steve Jobs            Sun Oct 21 15:29  10/253  "Welcome to the NeXT World"
 N  2 seidl@ux5.lbl.gov     Wed Jan 29 11:12  49/3451 "Re: ... 'til gabriel 
blows his horn ..."

5- I made a CopyOfActive.mbox, but when I double-click on it, it bombs.

6- If I then make a brand new Active.mbox, it works - but I still cannot 
access the mail in CopyOfActive.mbox with Mail.app.


Did the Active.mbox get corrupted somehow? Is the problem is not 
directly related to the switch to 3.0??

Other suggestions?

thanks.

Peter Seidl
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley CA 94720

seidl@lbl.gov

Re: Mail.app and Active.mbox

#1851

Author: Hartmut Benz
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:41

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In article <16NOV199212022491@csa2.lbl.gov> seidl@csa2.lbl.gov (PETER SEIDL  
510-486-7653) writes:
> After a disappointing experience upgrading to 3.0 (another sad story), 
> I just ran into the following problem with the Mail application:
> 
> I normally have Mail autolaunched at log-in, but now it bombs 
> immediately.  The problem seems to be associated with trying to open 
> my Active.mbox. Here are some observations:
> 
> 1-  I can launch Mail by double clicking on other mailboxes.  But if 
> I try to open Active.mbox thru the Mailboxes button, it kills Mail.
> 
[...]
> 6- If I then make a brand new Active.mbox, it works - but I still cannot 
> access the mail in CopyOfActive.mbox with Mail.app.
> 
> 
> Did the Active.mbox get corrupted somehow? Is the problem is not 
> directly related to the switch to 3.0??

I encountered this promblem once. You may try this:
	Edit the file Active.mbox/mbox and scan the mail-header for
	non-ASCII characters (everything but [A-Za-z.()<> and so on].
	REMOVE this chars.
I had a ''Reply to'' field containing some german umlauts---This killd Mail.app

_______________________________________
Hartmut Benz                          | benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de
D-5400 Koblenz, Germany               |       (NeXTmail ok)

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