Re: Strange behaviour in SMPmW118 Mailer

Dave Yeo wrote:
> 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.

This She suppose are the top files in the Profile tree, i.e. where the 
prefs.js, bookmarks.htm and other files are stored? Here is a file list 
She prepared just now and which She quotes below:

<$quote>

  Volume in drive Y is MOZ_SOUND      Serial number is 3F93:3413
  Directory of 
Y:\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Mozilla\Profiles\cribo.jacobsson\ffml759q.slt\*

16-05-04  22.41         <DIR>        0  .
16-02-28  14.13         <DIR>        0  ..
16-05-04  22.37         <DIR>        0  Cache
16-02-28  14.16         <DIR>        0  Calendar
16-02-28  14.16         <DIR>        0  chatzilla
16-02-28  14.16         <DIR>        0  chrome
16-02-28  14.16         <DIR>        0  copy
16-02-28  14.17         <DIR>        0  Mail
16-05-04  20.34         <DIR>        0  News
16-04-15   2.31          19.372      0  78476851.s
14-10-05  10.29          13.635      0  78476851.w
14-01-27  12.10              88      0  90820967.s
16-04-29  13.49         440.421    124  abook.mab
16-05-01  18.46         172.032      0  bookmarks-1.html
16-05-04  13.35         553.358      0  bookmarks.html
10-11-20   7.02             418      0  bookmarks.html.new
16-05-04  13.35         360.448      0  cert8.db
16-05-04  13.08          57.666      0  cookies.txt
16-05-04   8.43         130.823      0  downloads.rdf
14-11-30  10.41           1.784    124  Drafts.msf
16-05-04  13.35      83.002.071    124  history.dat
  7-06-15  17.02           1.423      0  history.mab
  7-08-11   8.29              91      0  hostperm.1
16-05-04   8.43      12.927.286      0  junklog.html
16-05-04  13.35          16.384    124  key3.db
  8-10-07  20.53          16.384      0  key3.db.old
16-05-04   8.43          22.099      0  localstore.rdf
  2-12-18   0.03             499      0  mailViews.dat
14-10-07   9.42          13.968      0  mimeTypes.rdf
14-11-30  10.41           1.722    124  nstmp-2.msf
14-11-30  10.41           1.722    124  nstmp.msf
16-05-04  13.35          10.233    124  panacea.dat
  8-01-05   1.00           1.402      0  panels.rdf
  7-06-14  15.04               0      0  parent.lock
13-11-06   3.27               0      0  prefs-1.js
13-10-18  19.33          31.074      0  prefs.current
16-05-04  13.35          37.394      0  prefs.js
14-01-29   2.18          31.569      0  prefs.js.20140129
14-01-29   2.18          31.569      0  prefs.sj
16-05-04  22.41               0      0  profile.txt
14-11-30  10.41          43.771    124  Saved messages.msf
13-10-22  15.15             438      0  search.rdf
14-10-16  12.52          16.384    124  secmod.db
  8-10-03  15.24          16.384    124  secmod.db.old
  8-10-02  20.58          16.384      0  secmod.old
14-11-30  10.41           1.940    124  Templates.msf
16-05-04  19.13       3.611.946    124  training.dat
16-02-03  15.27              64      0  URL.tbl
16-05-04  13.35              10      0  virtualFolders.dat
15-03-20  14.37           5.120      0  webappsstore.sqlite
      101.609.376 bytes (96MB) in 41 files and 9 dirs
   12.317.349.376 bytes (11GB) free

</$quote>

So which of these files are essential to backup and which files can be 
left out? And She will investigate the backup tapes to see if prefs.js 
is good: if the backup is older than two weeks (she had trouble with the 
tape station for awhile but that was cleared up by obtaining a fresh 
cleaning tape: ran it two times in the tape station and after that it 
has worked just fine), then perhaps it contains a healthy prefs.js file. 
Are there other files that must be restored to make SM work properly? 
Btw, why does the *.msf files exist in the top directory AND in the 
Mail->mail1.901.telia.com (Telia is Her ISP)?

> 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.

As She kicks off SMPmW118 from a .cmd file which look like this:

<$quote>

setlocal
set LIBPATHSTRICT=T
set BEGINLIBPATH=y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\SMPmW118
rem set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=smtp:1
rem set NSPR_LOG_FILE=y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\SMPmW118\smtp.log
set MOZILLA_HOME=Y:\mozilla.org\mozilla
set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\plugins
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
seamonkey.exe -P default -mailer
rem cdd y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla\Profiles\cribo.jacobsson
rem xcopy ffml759q.slt savedprofile /S /E /V /H /T /R /O
endlocal

</$quote>

Notice the rem'ed out xcopy statement: She used it a long tima ago, but 
it took a long time to execute, so She rem'ed them out. But if She knows 
which files are absolutely essential to backup, then the best strategy 
would be to zip them up just before seamonkey.exe is invoked; if SM 
crashes and takes down some important files by the crash, it would be a 
simple affair to unzip the archive, thus restoring the good files

> At the worst you'll have to create a new profile and copy over your mail 
> and news
> Dave

And the security files too: namely those that has an ending of .s and .w 
plus cert8.db and secmod.db.  What function does the file panacea.dat 
have for SM?


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