mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) (07/26/90)
Archive-name: mailmanager/25-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) Original-subject: Re: Where does the mail go??? Archive-site: ftphost.cac.washington.edu [128.95.112.1] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Jul25.171915.12545@cs.cmu.edu> Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer) writes: >In article <6791@helios.TAMU.EDU> jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) >writes: >> Just a simple question... Where the h### does my NeXT mail go >> when it just disappears from my Active.mbox for absolutely no >> reason whatsoever??? >I was just investigating this on one of the machines we have here. It >appears that under some conditions the table_of_contents file in your >Active.mbox directory can become corrupted. To retrieve the missing mail, >I quit Mail, deleted the table of contents and restarted mail. Mail >automatically rebuilt the table of contents and the missing mail magically >reappeared. Better yet, punt the NeXT Mail.app and use the University of Washington's MailManager tool (or its novice version EasyMail) instead. These programs handle local mail files in both /usr/spool/mail and mail.txt format as well as remote mailboxes via the IMAP2 (RFC-1064) protocol. Unlike Mail.app, MailManager concentrates on giving the user a high level of functionality ("bells and whistles" if you prefer) and reliability instead of flashy "chrome" (e.g. the silly low-res bitmaps of people's faces) that looks neat but isn't really useful. If you live in a closed NeXT-only world then Mail.app may be alright, but in the nitty-gritty world of Internet mail MailManager is the way to go. They are available for FTP from FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU as pub/MailManager and pub/EasyMail. _____ | ____ ___|___ /__ Mark Crispin, 206 842-2385, R90/6 pilot, DoD#0105 _|_|_ -|- || __|__ / / 6158 Lariat Loop NE "Gaijin! Gaijin!" |_|_|_| |\-++- |===| / / Bainbridge Island, WA "Gaijin ha doko ka?" --|-- /| |||| |___| /\ USA 98110-2098 "Niichan ha gaijin." /|\ | |/\| _______ / \ "Chigau. Gaijin ja nai. Omae ha gaijin darou" / | \ | |__| / \ / \"Iie, boku ha nihonjin." "Souka. Yappari gaijin!" Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo tsukatte, umaku ikanaku temo shiranai yo.