FC4 -- Mozilla Mail 1.7.12 Trashes Inbox

[chris mohler]

On 6/7/06, Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> This evening, I started Mozilla 1.7.12 under Fedora Core 4 and
> immediately clicked Window, Mail and Newsgroups to start Mozilla Mail
> just as I always did. It started up and then did something new to me:
> the Inbox viewers (both right-side panes) didn't fill up with a list of
> old emails as usual, and instead stayed blank. The hourglass stayed on
> for a while, about 60 seconds. Suddenly, ever email I have in the inbox
> between 02/22/2006 and now is trashed!
>
> Only Inbox seems to be affected. The other folders seem okay.
>
> I admit I had over 5000 emails in Inbox.
>
> Is this a known issue? What's the fix for it if so?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cochran
>
>
> I had thunderbird do something similar once - look in ~/.mozilla or
wherever mozilla keeps the mailbox files and see if the old inbox is still
there - if so, you should be able to copy the affected mailbox somewhere and
repair it, or extract the messages from it.

This is the page I used to fix my TB problem. (part II)

HTH,
Chris
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