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- From: Hartmut Benz <benz@nestor.uni-koblenz.de>
- Subject: Re: Mail.app and Active.mbox
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.104146.28898@infko.uucp>
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- Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
- References: <16NOV199212022491@csa2.lbl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:41:46 GMT
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- In article <16NOV199212022491@csa2.lbl.gov> seidl@csa2.lbl.gov (PETER SEIDL
- 510-486-7653) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- [...]
- > 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??
-
- I encountered this promblem once. You may try this:
- Edit the file Active.mbox/mbox and scan the mail-header for
- non-ASCII characters (everything but [A-Za-z.()<> and so on].
- REMOVE this chars.
- I had a ''Reply to'' field containing some german umlauts---This killd Mail.app
-
- _______________________________________
- Hartmut Benz | benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de
- D-5400 Koblenz, Germany | (NeXTmail ok)
-