Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Mike Dresser on 2010-03-03 15:14:02: > Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? If his email traffic is anything like mine, then he should have plenty of room within that 4GiB limit, considering he has less than 3000 messages -- A 30K-message maildir is only 54MB gzip

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-06 Thread Bernard
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:48:53 +0100, Bernard wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" operation? No, I never have. I read the interresting article on Mozillazine.org, and I have understood that my

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:48:53 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" >> operation? >> >> > No, I never have. I read the interresting article on Mozillazine.org, > and I have understood that my mbox got corrupted be

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 15:48, Bernard wrote: Camaleón wrote: Check out the Mozillazine article about this: *** Disappearing mail http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail *** Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" operation? No, I never have. I read the interrestin

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Camaleón wrote: Check out the Mozillazine article about this: *** Disappearing mail http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail *** Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" operation? No, I never have. I read the interresting article on Mozillazine.org, and I

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Edward Shornock wrote: 03.03.2010 00:21, Bernard kirjoitti: Hi to Everyone ! What a surprise ! I have been using Thunderbird and Icedove for so long, that it had never crossed my mind that I could suddenly lose mail. A few things to possibly try: -create a new profile (icedove -P) and with

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:33 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Mike Dresser wrote: >> Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? >> >> >> > I don't have a single folder that big. However, my directory : > > .mozilla-thunderbird/j1ay1d2c.default/Mail > > is 4458 MB large, that is about

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Mike Dresser wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bernard wrote: Again I re-installed the old .mozilla-thunderbird directory, waiting for more advices Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? Mike I don't have a single folder that big. However, my directory : .mozilla-thunder

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread Edward Shornock
03.03.2010 00:21, Bernard kirjoitti: Hi to Everyone ! What a surprise ! I have been using Thunderbird and Icedove for so long, that it had never crossed my mind that I could suddenly lose mail. A few things to possibly try: -create a new profile (icedove -P) and with Icedove/Thunderbird clo

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread thib
Have you tried to open the box with a simple text editor? What size is it? This doesn't look good. =/ Seems like the file has been truncated. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bernard wrote: Again I re-installed the old .mozilla-thunderbird directory, waiting for more advices Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread Bernard
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: After the already recommended backup you could also try to rebuild the index of the Inbox folder by right-clicking on this folder and choosing properties. On the "General Information" panel you'll find the "Rebuild Index" button. Thanks for this reply. I have just test

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
After the already recommended backup you could also try to rebuild the index of the Inbox folder by right-clicking on this folder and choosing properties. On the "General Information" panel you'll find the "Rebuild Index" button. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-02 Thread thib
Wow. If you haven't already, you should immediately backup the box before trying some magic on it. It's probably located at ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/$profile/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox. What's the size of the box? If it looks too small, open it with a text editor or another mail agent and check