282507 - NNTP hijacked my local folder! Where's my mail?

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

I was poking around the Mozilla site, trying to get help for another weird bug
(which has not been addressed yet).  I think I somehow subscribed to a newsgroup
or something. Now my Local Folders icon has a little yellow lock on it, and my
Inbox, Sent folder, et al. are missing.  All I can do is subscribe or
unsubscribe to newsgroups which I don't know how to use anyway.  I am baffled
and totally frustrated.  Not even my roommates, professional programmers who
both use Thunderbird, can help me.  Can you?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I have no idea.  Sorry.


Expected Results:  
Why should it have happend at all?  Why is this happening to me?  Why am I being
punished?  I tried to use the FAQ!!!  

The original problem I had, which continues, is that my browser suddenly stopped
showing .swf flash files.  It used to work just fine, then suddenly quit.  I
deleted my slightly older Mozilla (1.7), and reinstalled an updated one, but it
didn't work.  I also tried reinstalling shockwave.  Mozilla still says it
doesn't know how to handle that type of application/octet stream (shockwave
flash).  e.g. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail70.swf
This is irritating but not critical like my e-mail problem.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Please only one problem per report. For the Flash problem, you need the flash
plugin (not Shockwave), see http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/OSX.html#Flash. 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.