281996 - unable to retrieve all mail from server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[carljordan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050208

I am unable to retrieve all mail from my server (verizon.net).  I might get some
of it, one or two, or as many as fifteen.  Right now I have 31 messages sitting
on the server.  Preferences: leave mail on server is unchecked.  I have no
trouble retrieving them from another mail account, such as yahoo, but not from
my main account.  Also, although I might get some of them, when I check all of
the message are still there; i.e., those that I retrieved still appear on the
server.  I cannot get the rest of them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.checking automatically download all message in mail/newgroup preferences
2.double clicking the get messages button
3.

Actual Results:  
I still cannot retrieve the messages.  The blue bar at the bottom right
indicates it is trying, but never completes to indicate it has retrieved them all.

Expected Results:  
I should have retrieved all messages

Comment 1

[carljordan]

I think I figured it out.  I deleted the compreg.dat file, and it seems to be ok
now.  I had come across that in searching to solve a problem with downloading
while I was at work, and tried it for the mail.  It seems to have done the
trick.  Unless it persists, consider this closed.  Thanks.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

*** Bug 281995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

*** Bug 281997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

A bug cannot be "fixed" unless there was some patch applied to fix a
reproducible mozilla bug. You neither described a reproducible problem, nor
submitted nor applied any patch, so this was neither a bug, nor was it "fixed".

Comment 5

[carljordan]

OK.  I see the difference.  I'm not a techie.  But my problem is solved anyway.
 Sorry for the bother.

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the fix.

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