my email folders are getting corrupted

[Steven Shoemaker]

I am using Netscape 6.1 english win98se

Some of the email folders show no emails and some
how the default character set was changed to
Arabic I am unable to change this back to Western
with the properties dialog. Is there some file I
can edit to change this back? How can I see if my
emails are still there? How would I go about
moving my email to the latest linux version of
netscape and how would I go about installing
netscape 6.2 in a different drive on my Windows
98SE computer and transferring my email to that
version?
My inbox is now corrupted in this way but I can
still get to my emails with the web interface,
although most folders are not affected.

Thanks
Steven Shoemaker
PS can't post to netscape.netscape6.windows :-(

[Holger Metzger]

Close Netscape 6 completeley.

Go into your profile directory (c:\windows\applicaiton data\mozilla\...)

In \Mail\... - delete all *.msf files

Open prefs.js with notepad, look for lines similar to:
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.mailview.cache", "ISO-8859-9, UTF-8;");

user_pref("mailnews.view_default_charset", "ISO-8859-1");

And delete those.

Close prefs.js and create a simple plaintext file called "user.js" (in
the same location as prefs.js) and add the following lines:
user_pref("mailnews.view_default_charset", "ISO-8859-15");
user_pref("mailnews.send_default_charset", "ISO-8859-15");
(I use -15, to include EUR (EURO) support in emails/news, you can also
only use -1).

Hope this helps.

Holger
--
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always
got there first, and is waiting for it. (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
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Netscape 6 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de

[Marc Blecher]

Hope someone can help me. In Netscape 6.2, I cannot open saved mail
messages (i.e., messages I saved as text files on my hard drive). When I
try to open them in the Navigator, I just get a window asking me where
I want to save this "download".

Thanks.

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Professor Marc Blecher
Oberlin College, USA
marc.b...@oberlin.edu