Re: Strange behaviour in SMPmW118 Mailer

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> As Salaam Aleikum!
>
> Sorry for the resending of this msg, but She must add some important
> information after the text below:
>
> She uses SMPmW118 as a mailer client and up until a week ago it handled
> junk mail properly, i.e. when a junk mail arrived, the Junk icon flashed
> on and the junk mail was moved to the Junk folder. But now SMPmW118 just
> sets the flag but don't move the mail to the Junk folder, so She has to
> unjunk the offending mail, and mark it as Junk again, then it goes to
> the Trash folder instead. Are there some settings in prefs.js that can
> be done to cure this problem? The change must obviously be done when
> SMPmW118 is closed down, so THAT trap She knows about. Just now a junk
> mail appeared in the Inbox with the Junk flag set, and She had to unjunk
> it, mark it as Junk again and the mail when to the Trash folder directly.
>
> What's worse is that another mysterious problem have cropped up in
> SMPmW118 - if She tries to change profile data, either in the "Mail and
> news account settings" or "Preferences", the changes don't stick.
> Clicking OK should close the abovementioned settings but the windows
> DON'T close and save the changed settings: hitting Cancel closes the
> windows but when She opens the relevant Preferences settings and check
> the settings, they remain the same as before She tried to change this.
>
> Can this problem be fixed if She edits prefs.js "by hand" when SMPmW118
> is closed down, or can this errant behaviour be attributed to some
> damaged code in the SMPPmW code tree?

Something is broken in your profile. Do you have a backup from before 
the problem started? If so you could restore everything except the mail 
and news directories.
Otherwise, there are some files that get corrupted and can be deleted 
but it has been a long time since I used SM 1.x and can't really 
remember besides deleting XUL.mfl.
Mozilla profiles are fragile and it is a good idea to keep a couple of 
generations of backups.
At the worst you'll have to create a new profile and copy over your mail 
and news
Dave