268183 - Inbox lost ?????

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[LB Neal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

My email Inbox continues to die????

Over and Over the Inbox content just dissapears ????


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Email
2. Observe Inbox
3.

Actual Results:  
Inbox  = empty.

Expected Results:  
Displayed email inbox content...

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

are you running a virus checker and getting virus e-mail? some virus checkers
will simply delete your inbox....

Comment 2

[LB Neal]

I opened the email directory with Netscape 4.79 and the Inbox content was back.

Returned to Mozilla 1.73 and Inbox was once again showing the missing old\
 files ?

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Close Mozilla,and try to delete all the *.msf index files in your mail subfolder
in your Mozilla profile. Does this help?

Comment 4

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 277814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Steve]

Has this been looked at? It's happening to me "out of the blue", no system changes.

I've been using Tbird for a while now. All of the sudden, my inbox was wiped out
and it continues to happen.  NO clue why. I got mails today and they were in my
inbox. We ate dinner and now, they're gone.

View>>Messages is set to All but nothing shows.

In the ....\Thunderbird\Profiles\ijs25zye.default\Mail directory there are what
look like three mail subdirectories:
mail.optonline.net
mail.optonline-1.net
mail.optonline-2.net

In each of those there are Inbox and Inbox.msf files (and Drafts, Trash, Sent, etc)

ok, so now that I've found it how do I get tbird to recognize that it's my inbox
and actually has stuff in it?  Also, any idea what could be removing mail from
my inbox and "hiding" it?

If I highlight the inbox in Tbird and do a view/messages/all it shows me
nothing. If I change it to view/messages/last 5 days or recent it will show me
some of the messages. It just won't show anything with the "all" setting?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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