Eudora Pro Problem - Recovering Mail Received During Previous Session (Is causing Eudora to close)

[Hillel Bodek]

I am a long time Eudora Pro user. I have never had a problem with it.

I am using Eudora Pro 7.1.0.9. When downloading my e-mail. I had an error
message which shut down Eudora Pro. When I re-opened Eudora Pro there was a
message in the task area which read "recovering mail received during
previous session." <Dominant>.

When I re-open Eudora Pro I keep getting a message, "Eudora Encounter a
Problem and Needs to Close. We are Sorry for the Inconvenience."

How can I get out of this error and resume using Eudora Pro?

Should I reinstall Eudora Pro? If I reinstall Eudora Pro, will I lose all
of my prior mails, filters, and personalities?

Thanks.

Hillel Bodek

[Han]

"Hillel Bodek" <bode...@mindspring.com> wrote in
news:59WdnUn6f5AdY5TW...@earthlink.com:

Can you use webmail to look at the offending mail? Or another email
reader? If you can, deleting it off the server via the ISP's website or
OE may cure the problem.

If it persists, the next step should be to look for rcv files in your
spool directorie(s). If present, delete them. If not (who knows?).

No need yet to reinstall, since if there is an offending email on the ISP
server, you have to get rid of that first!

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Best regards
Han
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[Hillel Bodek]

Han,

Before hearing from you, I had previously deleted the offending e-mail from
my ISP's server. However, that didn't work.

Your recommendation that I delete any .rcv files from the spool folder(s)
was on target. I removed two .rcv files (one from the spool folder itself,
the other from the folder inside the spool folder for the particular mailbox
which was to receive the offending message).

Thanks

[Todd]

I had a similar problem with Eudora 5.1 (yeah, I know it's way old).
Something went kablooey and it kept needing to close. Going into the
Spool directory and deleting the rcv seemed to fix the problem. You
might try that before you go through the headache of reinstalling.

Todd

[Todd]

Worked for me too last year. When in doubt, delete the rcv. :-)

Todd

[John H Meyers]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:31 -0600, Todd wrote:

> I had a similar problem with Eudora 5.1 (yeah, I know it's way old).
> Something went kablooey and it kept needing to close. Going into the

> Spool directory and deleting the RCV seemed to fix the problem.

By way of further explanation, when Eudora fetches a message from a server,
the unprocessed "original source" first goes into a "spool" file
named NNNNNNNN.RCV, where NNNNNNNN are digits (including hexadecimal digits).

If a message later causes a concussion to Eudora,
while being analyzed and processed, the spool file remains.

Whenever Eudora is launched, it tries to process any such spool files,
which leads to a cycle of re-crashing upon each launch,
until the offending spool file is removed.

This architecture happens to provide a means by which
you can inject the original "source" of any message,
exactly as it may have existed on a server,
or the same "source" as you may view in other email clients
(or in Gmail and some other "webmail" viewers),
and have Eudora process it, just as if it had been
downloaded by Eudora directly from the server,
including the decoding and separate storing
of any attachments or embedded objects.

Simply store the original "source" into a "spool" folder file
named NNNNNNNN.RCV -- you can use any eight digits for NNNNNNNN,
one suggestion for which might be YYMMDDXX (today's date
with a two-digit counter appended).

Of course, you don't need Eudora to decode such "source" files --
just store them as "anyname.eml" and open directly (".eml" is usually
"associated" with Outlook Express or Windows Mail) -- perhaps this
will enable you to see what any offending incoming "RCV file"
contains, even if it was indigestible to Eudora.

Conversely, you can import ".eml" files into Eudora,
by dropping them into the "spool" folder as "RCV files,"
since both the ".eml" and "RCV file" formats seem to be precisely the same
as the "internet message format" defined by email standards (RFCs).

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[John H Meyers]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:12:56 -0600,

I forgot to mention that if you have installed WinZip,
you can also rename any .RCV or .EML file
(a/k/a "internet message" or "message/rfc822" content type)
using the extension .MIM instead,
which will generally be "associated" to open with WinZip.

The various MIME parts of the message
(including any embedded objects and attached files)
can then be extracted by WinZip.

This goes way back, even to old versions of WinZip
(versions 7, 8, and 9 can certainly all do this).

An entire Thunderbird (or "Eudora 8") mailbox file
can also be processed in this way by WinZip,
to extract attachments.

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