[linux-help] Re: Mozilla crashes fixed!

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Mozilla was very clogged with old emails, but it kept crashing when I
would try to delete out some of the old emails and spam.  Then when I
would restart mozilla after it crashed, then I would get another copy of
the emails.  It was a never ending cycle.  However....when I reinstalled
RedHat, I got all of my emails that I lost last fall, but I don't have
the recent emails.  I selected the wrong home partition for the
install.  All is not lost because I found some really good jokes in the
old emails.  ~Anne

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:34, Jeff Vian wrote:
> your email problem may not be mozilla (exactly)
> 
> After upgrading from RH8 to RH9 mine was extremely slow in accessing and 
> updating the contents of local folders.
> 
> After cleaning out my email several times and compacting the folders 
> several times I put up with it for several months.  Then suddenly after 
> repeating this exercise (and without deleting any of the OLD mail I had 
> saved) it suddenly went back to working as it had prior to the upgrade.
> 
> I believe it was due to some corruption in the indexes mozilla uses to 
> access the local mail folders, and it finally righted itself when the 
> corrupt part was rewritten. Since then (a couple months ago) everything 
> works as it used to and I am quite happy with it.
> 
> 
> ironrose wrote:
> 
> >I will check into that and I will see if I can get all of my current 
> >emails that I am saving over to Evolution.  Thanks.  ~Anne
> >
> >Jeremy Johnstone wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Try switching to Ximian Evolution. You won't regret it!
> >>
> >>Jeremy
> >>
> >>On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:38, ironrose wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I don't think that the SoBig virus has any effect on linux systems.  For 
> >>>those of us who use linux to get our email, we should be safe.  It adds 
> >>>some extra motivation to switch to linux.  Good luck with windoze and I 
> >>>am very glad that I have alternate computers with an alternate OS that I 
> >>>can surf the internet with.
> >>>
> >>>My mozilla is crashing frequently since I upgraded to RedHat 9 and it 
> >>>may be because I have ~120 unread messages.  I keep trying to read the 
> >>>messages and it is crashing just about everytime I try to delete some 
> >>>emails.  I have to delete the emails one at a time and after about 5 
> >>>that I delete, moxilla crashes again.  Everytime it crashes, then I get 
> >>>another duplicate of the emails and is compounding the problem.  Mozilla 
> >>>apparently doesn't like being constipated with emails.  No OS is immune 
> >>>to problems, but at least mine is an email problem and not crashing the 
> >>>OS.  ~Anne
> >>>
> >>>David E Carmichael wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>To All:
> >>>>
> >>>>I use Norton AV with email scanning to catch any virus..
> >>>>
> >>>>If you know how the "SOBIG" viruses work.. they randomly choose a
> >>>>name from the users address book and then sends out emails as if
> >>>>that user was the sender.
> >>>>
> >>>>After getting the below message I made sure that I had the latest
> >>>>version of NortnAV and rescanned my system.
> >>>>
> >>>>Please make sure that you have your Antivirus up to date and that
> >>>>your system is not infected!!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>From: <firewallteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>To: <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 3:20 PM
> >>>>Subject: Virus found in your message Thank you!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>A malicious mobile code (virus) has been detected in your mail.
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>This could
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>mean that your computer is infected.
> >>>>>The mail you sent has not been delivered.
> >>>>>The virus is known as Scenarios/Incoming/Accept mail:
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>'Selected'.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Incoming Virus: A virus has been detected:
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>'W32/Sobig-F'.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Virus file *.PIF found: A filename matching
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>the file mask was detected: 'your_document.pif'.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>This event has been logged and reported to our administrators.
> >>>>>Contact your local staff for info about cleaning your system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
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