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Last night my Netscape hung and crashed and I had to force-quit it.
And now my Email's gone. It appears the Inbox is corrupt; I've managed to import most of the other mailboxes into MacMail, but trying to get Inbox crashes MacMail. Rebooting Netscape -- it doesn't acknowledge it HAS the account at all.
So I guess I have to go and try to edit the Inbox file and see if I can find the part of it (hopefully the header) that's killing everything, or else I've lost about 1.2GB of mail from 5 years through yesterday. :(
And now my Email's gone. It appears the Inbox is corrupt; I've managed to import most of the other mailboxes into MacMail, but trying to get Inbox crashes MacMail. Rebooting Netscape -- it doesn't acknowledge it HAS the account at all.
So I guess I have to go and try to edit the Inbox file and see if I can find the part of it (hopefully the header) that's killing everything, or else I've lost about 1.2GB of mail from 5 years through yesterday. :(
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Date: 2009-07-19 04:56 pm (UTC)formail -e -d -s inboxfile >> newinboxfile
which would dissect the old one message by message and put the good ones into newinboxfile.
You might lose something corrupt, but only that message.
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Date: 2009-07-19 05:10 pm (UTC)That's assuming you've stored your account locally. If it's stashed on an IMAP server, then all you've lost is your Netscape account settings; create new account and you'll get the mail back.
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Date: 2009-07-21 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 03:16 am (UTC)Not just backups you should have had, but backups starting RIGHT NOW with the corrupted file so that you can start over if you damage it further.