Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path

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3 total messages Started by nextoneroot Operator Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:08

#2002

Author: 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?

Re: Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path

#2003

Author: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:25

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In article <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org> nextone!root (Operator) writes:
>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!

Try from shell prompt:
dremove Mail MailDir

For other settings of Mail.app, do:
dread -o Mail

which will give you a list of Mail.app settings (that have been modified).
Then you can remove a bad setting similarly.


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Re: Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path

#2007

Author: Mike Matthews
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 13:49

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In article <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org>  writes:
>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!

RTFM dread and dwrite.

dread -o Mail will give you a biiig hint.

I would have replied by mail, but, well, there's no To: field, no From:
field, no Sender: field, no nothing.  Not even a .sig file.
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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	After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven.  As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
	"This is true," He replied.
	"He will need laws," said the Demon slyly.
	"What!  You, his appointed Enemy for all Time!  You ask for the
right to make his laws?"
	"Oh, no!" Satan replied, "I ask only that he be allowed to make
his own."
	It was so granted.

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