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- From: seidl@csa2.lbl.gov (PETER SEIDL 510-486-7653)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Mail.app and Active.mbox
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 12:02 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Message-ID: <16NOV199212022491@csa2.lbl.gov>
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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
-
-