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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: [next] Re: Where does the mail go???
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Date: 26 Jul 90 01:14:29 GMT
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Archive-name: mailmanager/25-Jul-90
Original-posting-by: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Original-subject: Re: Where does the mail go???
Archive-site: ftphost.cac.washington.edu [128.95.112.1]
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Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <1990Jul25.171915.12545@cs.cmu.edu> Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer) writes:
>In article <6791@helios.TAMU.EDU> jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) 
>writes:
>> Just a simple question...  Where the h### does my NeXT mail go
>> when it just disappears from my Active.mbox for absolutely no
>> reason whatsoever???  
>I was just investigating this on one of the machines we have here.  It 
>appears that under some conditions the table_of_contents file in your 
>Active.mbox directory can become corrupted.  To retrieve the missing mail, 
>I quit Mail, deleted the table of contents and restarted mail.  Mail 
>automatically rebuilt the table of contents and the missing mail magically 
>reappeared.

Better yet, punt the NeXT Mail.app and use the University of
Washington's MailManager tool (or its novice version EasyMail)
instead.  These programs handle local mail files in both
/usr/spool/mail and mail.txt format as well as remote mailboxes via
the IMAP2 (RFC-1064) protocol.

Unlike Mail.app, MailManager concentrates on giving the user a high
level of functionality ("bells and whistles" if you prefer) and
reliability instead of flashy "chrome" (e.g. the silly low-res bitmaps
of people's faces) that looks neat but isn't really useful.  If you
live in a closed NeXT-only world then Mail.app may be alright, but in
the nitty-gritty world of Internet mail MailManager is the way to go.

They are available for FTP from FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU as
pub/MailManager and pub/EasyMail.

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