Re: Strange behaviour in SMPmW118 Mailer

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>> She can report some new info on SMPmw118 and that if She kicks off the
>>>> mailer from within eCs20rc4 which have a lot off extra stuff installed
>>>> in it, i.e. klibc6(sp?) and other things that She installed to get the
>>>> Flash11 plugin to work here, the mailer comes up just fine and it DON'T
>>>> freeze as it does in WSeB! :-) She have a vague memory installing
>>>> klibc6(sp?) and the other stuff required for Flash to fool Flash11 to
>>>> work there, but there is what no-joy :-( So She's gonna let mailer run
>>>> today to see if it handles junk mail as it should, i.e. moving it to 
>>>> the
>>>> Junk folder instead of Her unjunking / junk mark such mail when the
>>>> mailer is run under WSeB. But HOW can the mailer misbehave in WSeB but
>>>> behave as it should here in eCs20rc4? Just writing this post is like a
>>>> smoothie going down to your stomach :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you still have Flash installed? If so try uninstalling it. You
>>> might have to install and then uninstall on your WSEB.
>>> Dave
>>
>> Thhe Flash was installed under eCs20rc4, and Flash version of FF namely
>> the 17.0.11esr are kicked off by a separate firefoxnewprofile_flash.cmd
>> file, and only from  inside eCs20rc4.
> 
> Were the cmd files sharing MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH?
> 
>> Here we are talking about
>> SeaMonkey/2, i.e. SMPmW118 and as She sometimes have both SM/2 and FF/2
>> (the 10.0.2 version)
> 
> The 10.0.2 version was broken (I accidentally used some experimental 
> code), if you like 10ESR, you should be using 10.0.11 or 10.0.12
> 
>> running in parallell - I know its an old version
>> but if you only have 640Mib RAM, so if for example She wants to grab an
>> old Top Ten song from youtube, the steps She takes are as follows: Close
>> SM, fire up FF/2, search Google for the relevant youtube, click on it,
>> copy the youtube adress to the ManyClip clipboard, close down FF, fire
>> up SMPMW118, bring up the Navigator window, go to the conversion site
>> and extract the mp3 file there. Note that She ALWAYS starts SMPmW118 and
>> various versions of FF/2 from separate cmd files - She have listed the
>> relevant cmd file for SMPMw118 for you where -P Default" points to a
>> profile named
>> y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla\profiles\cribo.jacobsson\<catname>.slt
>> and under that is Mail->mail1.901.telia.com where Her mail are stored.
>>
>> Now you recommended Her to make a totally new profile in SMPmW118 so
>> these pesky mail problems go away, but (1) can this be done withou the
>> new profile creating a new mail and news tree, i.e. letting the new
>> profile point to the mail1.901.telia.com (for email) and the News dir
>> (for news) and (2) how do She "migrate" over Her bookmarks, cookies,
>> passwords, certificates and similar stuff to the new profile?
> 
> For the mail and news, you just recreate the same structure and then 
> move the mbox files over. Bookmarks and certificates can also just be 
> copied over. There was a trick to moving passwords that I forget but 
> Google should be able to find.
> 

If She's gonna create a totally new profile and place the Mail and 
newsgroups there, She would place the new profile, Mail and News on Her 
FAT32 partition so they could be accessed by the W*nStupid version of SM 
  if something just can't be done by the OS/2 version. Sharing 
bookmarks, History, Passwords, Mail and News on a FAT32 partition might 
also allow a linux version of SM to access this data, too: as She 
understands it, linux understands FAT32 as well as plain FAT, but you 
can't have a profile on plain fat because of the 8.3 restriction. How 
linux fares when it comes to accessing HPFS and/or HPFS386, She don't 
know, but according to some persons, linux seems to understand at least 
plain HPFS which HPFS386 is a superset of.

As for making FAT32 partitions more robust against corruption, just 
change the CALL=<bootdrive\os2\CACHEF32 line to include the /L:OFF 
setting and reboot. Then lazy writing is turned OFF for ALL your FAT32 
partitions - it may slow down things a bit, especially on an old box, 
but that is offset by the fact that writings to your SM/2 or FF/2 
profile data is done IMMEDIATELY and not buffered. She have done this in 
April this year (i.e. changing the CALL= statement) and never ever 
having to boot into WinXP to chkdsk the fat32 partition from there. As 
for Her HPFS386 partitions, She have turned lazy writing OFF for the y: 
partition where the mozilla tree sits now.

>> Ane when
>> we are at email itself discussion, WHERE is the information about the
>> mail panes stored? She have three panes: the leftmost contains the top
>> entry for the mail content and it's subfolders plus the number of
>> unread, total and size of each subfolder. The two rightmost panes are
>> the mail listing which have the following entries going from left to
>> right: Icon for attachhment, Recipient, Sender, Junk symbol, Subject,
>> Date&time, size, Flag and Size. This order She wants preserved if She
>> creates a new profile. and when the profile creation is done SMPmW118
>> will be kicked off by a new .cmd file but pointing to the new profile
>> instead.
> 
> I'm not sure where that info is kept, perhaps someone else remembers or 
> else Google is your friend
> Dave
> 
> 

Or if the order in the Mail pane gets scrambled, just use the small 
arrow icon at the extreme right and mark what fields should be 
displayed, then use the RMB trick to move them around so they appears 
where you want them to be. Had to do this a few times; somebody gave Her 
a tip about the RMB trick, thank the Great Mother for that info!


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