disapearing mail and settings
richard h
mail info has been lost tried. How do I get the info back please?
Thanks
Richard
Daniel
If it was Mozilla the program that became corrupted (How??) then you may
not need to be worried. In your Windows Explorer, do a search for
"Inbox" (without the quotes), as this is where your incoming Mail is
found. There will, hopefully, be a folder called "sent" (without the
quotes), which contains your outgoing mail, at the same location.
Once you have found your old profile, the good people here can advise
how to import it into your new profile.
You may first need to have a look at:-
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/hiddenfiles.mspx
so that your folders will all be visible.
Let us know how you go.
Daniel
Chris Ilias
> I have a Dell Inspiron running Xp . Mozilla has corrupted and all my
> mail info has been lost tried. How do I get the info back please?
http://ilias.ca/mozilla/troubleshooting/#lostprofile
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richard h
settings back without losing anything ? This is the 3rd time that
mozilla has crashed since starting using this new Dell laptop. Never had
a problem before. I am starting to there a problem with Dell as I
understand some software including Symantic is not compatible. Thanks
for the help
Richard
Daniel
Richard, the preference in these groups is that you bottom post, as I am
doing. You could imagine that the champions in these groups, who read
hundreds of posting per day, find it easier to start at the top, then
read each posting in secession to follow what's going on. Anyway........
Having found the old e-mails, in Windows Explorer change the name of the
folders they are in from inbox, sent, etc to old-inbox, old-sent, etc.
Then move them to where the current inbox, etc, are. Then, when you
start Mozilla, you should have both inbox and old-inbox, sent and
old-sent, etc. Move the e-mails around to your hearts content.
HTH
What version of Mozilla do you have and have you considered moving to
Seamonkey, which takes up where Mozilla finished:-
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey
Daniel
richard h
Hi Daniel found the files and transferred them to the "new" inbox. When
I open the folder using explorer they are there. But they are in code
and do not show up in Mozilla as mail sent or received.
Mozilla version is 1.7. If I can get these mails back I will certainly
change to Seamonkey.
Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Richard
Daniel
Richard, just to confirm you are dealing with, for example, the file
called "inbox" and not the file called "inbox.msf"?
Daniel
richard h
Hi yes it is just inbox but there are lots of them about 30 or so with
different dates. They will open in wordpad and each file contains a
number of emails in code.
There is also a folder called inbox though when I try to open it it
appears to be empty.
Richard
gwtc
code such as what? If there's lots on several lines together, then
that might represent a pic or some other attachment that doesn't get
converted to text.
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Daniel
draw, so the start of my "inbox" with no msf suffix looks like:-
> From - Tue Feb 21 23:24:25 2006
> X-Account-Key: account3
> X-UIDL: oVU!!kel!!QM-!!51d!!
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0009
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Return-Path: <INORB...@terra.es>
> Received: from csmtpout4.frontal.correo (webmail.terra.es [213.4.149.12])
> by mail.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id k1LD2tJ11088
> for <dx...@albury.net.au>; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:02:55 +1100 (EST)
> X-Delivered-To: <dx...@albury.net.au>
> Received: from cps1 (213.4.149.20) by csmtpout4.frontal.correo (7.2.056.6)
> id 43F678CF00082946; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:01:15 +0100
> Received: from [62.59.192.117] by correo1.terra.es with HTTP
> (authenticated as inorb...@terra.es); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:01:12 +0100
> Message-ID: <24184695.1140526872220.JavaMail.root@cps1>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:01:12 +0100 (MET)
> From: "INORB...@terra.es" <INORB...@terra.es>
> Reply-To: "INORB...@terra.es" <INORB...@terra.es>
> Subject: notification
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_Part_801_3565112.1140526872218"
> X-UIDL: oVU!!kel!!QM-!!51d!!
>
> ------=_Part_801_3565112.1140526872218
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>
> INORBIT LOTTERY PROMOTION BV
>
> HOVANSTRAAT28-35, 2525 RH ,ROTTERDAM-NETHERLANDS
You would have the same sort of header info at the top of your "inbox"
(with no ".msf" suffix) with all your messages to follow.
To view your file content, Edit (Note Edit not Open) the file using
Notepad or Word.
Daniel
gwtc
that maybe all find and dandy, but as I said, if it was an image
attached, then he might be seeing this:
------=_NextPart_000_006A_01C692D7.B9542040
Content-Type: image/png;
name="TWQYFYK.PNG"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <006901c692c6$f5cb5040$6c822ecf@S659BF5Q>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 rest of this is snipped.
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Daniel
O.K. but in both cases the file did not start with unintelligible
garbage, so it may mean that Richard has about 30 or so "inbox"'s to
sort through to find his right one.
Daniel
Daniel
gw, I would have thought that the inbox would have started with a email,
new or read, but, I guess, your file still contains the attachment to an
email that you have read and deleted at its head! Correct?
Mind still wandering. Don't we normally say that when an email is
deleted, it's really just marked for deletion until we compact the file?
If we mark an email for deletion, then compact the file, wouldn't that
also remove any attachments, as well? If so, how do you still have the
attachments, but not the email, at the head or your file? Is an
attachment put into the file after the email to which it is attached?
This sort of makes sense.
End of wandering, for now!
Daniel
gwtc
wrong! Who said anything about deleting the message. I have many
messages that I haven't deleted yet from the inbox and they contain
lots of attachments.
> Mind still wandering. Don't we normally say that when an email is
> deleted, it's really just marked for deletion until we compact the file?
> If we mark an email for deletion, then compact the file, wouldn't that
> also remove any attachments, as well? If so, how do you still have the
> attachments, but not the email, at the head or your file? Is an
> attachment put into the file after the email to which it is attached?
> This sort of makes sense.
>
> End of wandering, for now!
>
> Daniel
richard h
reloaded everything but I never did get my emails back. Daniel I should
have been more specific. The code is HTML I can read the inboxes in
notepad or word pad (but not word). Still have not got them back though
Mozillas help page gives instructions on what should work but it doesn't.
Richard
Daniel
O.K. What does happen. Did you give the Inboxes individual names BEFORE
you moved them, with Mozilla closed, to your profile location? If so, do
these additional inboxes appear in your profile when you start Mozilla?
Daniel
Peter Anton
Sorry if this gets in the wrong thread. I just subscribed to the
newsgroup and am sending this from my Mozilla email client. I didn't
know how to start a new thread other than to reply to a random message
and wipe it clean and change the subject line. Is that an acceptable
procedure? Hopefully, it's simply subject line indexed.
Anyway, I have a question about email composed and sent while in Offline
mode. When I click on Send, the Compose window simply disappears and I
don't see any folder or other reference to stored unsent mail. I did
just find the File / Send Unsent Messages command which is dimmed when
there isn't any mail waiting to be sent. Is there anywhere to see what
mail is waiting to be sent?
It would be nice to be able to review any unsent mail before blindly
sending it out into cyberspace. As it is, I had composed 2 messages
offline, but when I sent them, I noticed that 3 messages were sent. I
remember composinig one offline several days ago and had forgotten about
it. Now somebody is going to get a duplicate of an earlier email that I
had rewritten thinking the original was lost.
Thanks,
Peter Anton
gwtc
> Hi Newsgroupers,
>
> Sorry if this gets in the wrong thread. I just subscribed to the
> newsgroup and am sending this from my Mozilla email client. I didn't
> know how to start a new thread other than to reply to a random message
> and wipe it clean and change the subject line. Is that an acceptable
> procedure? Hopefully, it's simply subject line indexed.
>
well, so far you're doing good. To post your own message, for
example, to start your own thread, you just click on Compose, and then
send. To reply to a message, you click on Reply. Just like email.
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Chris Ilias
> Anyway, I have a question about email composed and sent while in Offline
> mode. When I click on Send, the Compose window simply disappears and I
> don't see any folder or other reference to stored unsent mail. I did
> just find the File / Send Unsent Messages command which is dimmed when
> there isn't any mail waiting to be sent. Is there anywhere to see what
> mail is waiting to be sent?
The Unsent folder is in the "Local Folders" account.
Moz Champion (Dan)
Use Write or New Message to create a new thread
To see if there is/are any messages waiting to be sent, look in the
Unsent folder(s).
No, there are no indications the message is being saved, the entire
procedure is automatic.
If you want to review your mail prior to it being sent out, then review
it prior to hitting the SEND button (or Send Later button as the case
may be)
Peter Anton
> _Peter Anton_ spoke thusly on 04/09/2006 8:08 PM:
>
>> Anyway, I have a question about email composed and sent while in
>> Offline mode. When I click on Send, the Compose window simply
>> disappears and I don't see any folder or other reference to stored
>> unsent mail. I did just find the File / Send Unsent Messages command
>> which is dimmed when there isn't any mail waiting to be sent. Is
>> there anywhere to see what mail is waiting to be sent?
>
>
> The Unsent folder is in the "Local Folders" account.
Well, whatdya know... I never gave the Local Folders "account" a good
look, but there it is in black and white. D-oh!
Here's another question: I now have 3 accounts that I want to check when
I download my POP mail. I found that just clicking the Get Messages
button does not check all accounts and I have to click on the down arrow
and select Get All Messages. I thought that the button might be for
just the primary/default account, but I changed that and it still looked
at the same account. Perhaps I have to close the mail client and repoen
it for the changes to take effect. Do I have that correct about the
button? Any way to program the button to automatically check all accounts?
Peter
gwtc
you're in at the moment.
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Tim Judd
To compose a new message in Thunderbird, click the "Write" button.
In Mozilla and/or SeaMonkey, look for a "New" or "Compose" (or even a
"Write" there too). Now on to the question.
check your drafts folder
if you have an outbox, check that.
others welcome to correct me.
Paul B. Gallagher
> _Peter Anton_ spoke thusly on 04/09/2006 8:08 PM:
>
>> Anyway, I have a question about email composed and sent while in
>> Offline mode. When I click on Send, the Compose window simply
>> disappears and I don't see any folder or other reference to stored
>> unsent mail. I did just find the File / Send Unsent Messages command
>> which is dimmed when there isn't any mail waiting to be sent. Is
>> there anywhere to see what mail is waiting to be sent?
>
>
> The Unsent folder is in the "Local Folders" account.
Interesting. In my installation it's in the primary mail account. Does
it "belong" in Local Folders, or doesn't it matter?
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Paul B. Gallagher
CTRL-T gets messages for whichever account you're in at the moment.
CTRL-SHIFT-T gets messages for all accounts.
To have Mozilla automatically retrieve all accounts periodically, go
into the settings for each of your accounts and set each to retrieve
automatically. AFAIK there is no global setting that lets you set all to
the same options at the same time. But if you set all your accounts to
the same interval (e.g., 20 minutes), they should all check for new
messages in tandem. Or you may prefer for some accounts to check more
often and others to check less often.