Re: Strange behaviour in SMPmW118 Mailer

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Simplest would be to back up everything except Cache/ which is probably 
> the biggest part of your profile and easiest to rebuild.
> 
> Go up from your profile and delete XUL.mfl (with SM closed) as it often 
> gets corrupt and will get rebuilt.
> 

There is NO XUL.mfl in Her default whose top dir is called 
"cribo.jacobsson\ffml497q.slt" profile BUT on exists in a copy of the 
profile which She did and this file is dated 2007-something, and there 
is one in a profile called "Default" which is empty exept for the file 
XUL.mfl. So should She copy one of these to the 
"cribo.jacobsson\<cat>.slt. Or should She get the full copy from a tape 
which was done in February this year and just restore every file (exept 
  for the bookmarks.htm and history.dat; She can't think that leaving 
these be will fuck up the behaviour of SMPmW118.

>> 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?
> 
> I can't think of any, but it has been awhile and I may well have forgot.
> 
>> Btw, why does the *.msf files exist in the top directory AND in the
>> Mail->mail1.901.telia.com (Telia is Her ISP)?
> 
> Good question, they probably shouldn't be there.
> 
>>
>>> 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.

See the above for the XUL.mfl; it don't exist in Her working profile.
>>> 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
> 
> I use rsync,
> rsync -hia2X -del Z:\Mozprofiles g:\Mozprofiles 2>&1 | tee mrsync.log
> which I run when closing SM etc and periodically zip up the archive.
> 
>>
>>> 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?
> 
> I can't remember but if I remember correctly, that any *.dat file can be 
> safely deleted (backup first)
> 
> Dave


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