roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu (03/03/91)
I'm having two problems with the NextMail app. (1) When mail comes after I poll my uucp host the icon envelop fails to fan out indicating that mail has been received. This is the case regardless of how long I wait, and the account is set up to check every five minutes to see if there is any mail qued and waiting. (2) When I delete entries from the mailbox the space is not reclaimed on the hard drive. Neither quitting the app or rebooting helps. If destroy the mailboxes however, the space is immediately reclaimed. What's the deal here?? this seems like awfully weird stuff. When I set up my uucp host a few weeks ago neither of these phenomena occurred. They just seemed to appear out of the blue -- though I'm sure as with everything there is an answer! I'd greatly appreciate any help or suggestions. Thank you all in advance. Send NextMail to: <tony%cyrano@merk.com> or <...!uunet!merk!cyrano!tony>
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (03/04/91)
In article <1991Mar2.194319.188@hulaw1.harvard.edu> roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes: >I'm having two problems with the NextMail app. (1) When mail comes after I poll >my uucp host the icon envelop fails to fan out indicating that mail has been >received. This is the case regardless of how long I wait, and the account is >set up to check every five minutes to see if there is any mail qued and >waiting. There might be a problem with one of the mail messages that you received. If you have a corrupted header in one of the files Mail.app gets stuck trying to extract the mail. Open the Active.mbox as a folder. If you see something like .incoming* or the like (everything with the word incoming in it) then look at the contents. It should be the message that confused Mail.app. Read it and then delete it. After that everything should work fine. (except if the message is also still in /usr/spool/mail/yourLoginName, if this is the case, edit this file and delete everything that belongs to that message, that should help). > (2) When I delete entries from the mailbox the space is not reclaimed on the > hard drive. Neither quitting the app or rebooting helps. If destroy the > mailboxes however, the space is immediately reclaimed. What's the deal here?? You need to compact the mailbox with the the command you find in the utility menu of Mail.app. It might be though, that if your Mail.app is confused with bad headers, it does not work. So get rid of your problem with incoming mail first. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet