From: Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 21/08/2025 9:32 pm, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   >> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>> On 21/08/2025 5:49 am, bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>>> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>>> On 20/08/2025 4:40 am, bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>>>>> bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   >>>>>>> For some reason I have ended up with multiple, sometimes more   
   >>>>>>> than 10, msf files for e.g. the INBOX folder and sometimes   
   >>>>>>> multiple ones for Sent and Spam. Why is this and how can I clean   
   >>>>>>> up so I only have one msf file for each mail folder?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> The problem is that multiple inboxes for a single email account   
   >>>>>> are created and giving names such as INBOX, INBOX-1, INBOX-2 etc.   
   >>>>>> I want to get rid of all but INBOX and its associated msf file.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> How to do this?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> As I recall, the msf files are, effectively, just index files for   
   >>>>> your various Inbox files. You can delete them and a new file will   
   >>>>> be created when you select the Inbox with-in SeaMonkey.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If you have more Inbox's than you require, completely close   
   >>>>> SeaMonkey then have a look at the Properties of the Profile Folders   
   >>>>> in your File Manager. As I recall, the Folders with-in the Profile   
   >>>>> MUST be write-enabled .... so *NOT* be marked as *Read Only*   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> When you have checked this, you should be able to start SeaMonkey   
   >>>>> and drag any e-mails in the other INBOX-1, INBOX-2, etc, into your   
   >>>>> Primary Inbox.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I am running Linux and SeaMonkey is able to download messages etc.   
   >>>> so I cannot see that there is any read-only restriction in the file   
   >>>> system itself. Googling I found that this has been a long-standing   
   >>>> bug in Thunderbird which possibly means that this is also a   
   >>>> SeaMonkey bug? If correct, I am surprised it has not been fixed?   
   >>>   
   >>> "means that this is also a SeaMonkey bug" .... that YOU and YOU alone   
   >>> have come across over twenty-odd years.   
   >>>   
   >>> With your mention of Thunderbird .... have you got it open at the   
   >>> SAME time as you are trying to use SeaMonkey??   
   >>>   
   >>> Have you got SEPERATE profiles for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey?? Or are   
   >>> you trying to run BOTH Thunderbird AND SeaMonkey AT THE SAME TIME   
   >>> USING THE SAME PROFILE??   
   >>   
   >> I don't think using the same profile even possible.   
   >   
   > That's what I though. The first to open would 'own' the Profile files   
   > and then the second (running at the same time) would have to,   
   > effectively, create a second profile (or secondary files, hence the   
   > INBOX-2, etc, that were mentioned.   
   >   
   > Or if you were to set TB up with a Profile IN A TOTALLY SEPERATE   
   > LOCATION, maybe THEN you could run both at the same time.   
   >   
   >> As for running TB and SM at the same time, I do that occasionally   
   >> without any ill-effects.   
   >   
   > With seperate profiles in seperate locations??   
   >   
   >> Having just looked at my SM profile, the newest first-level .msf file   
   >> under Mail is dated July 2022.  The second-level ones are newer.   
   >   
   > Sorry! "first-level .msf" and "second-level"?? WHAT second-level .msf??   
      
   My Thunderbird profile is under $HOME/.thunderbird   
   My Seamonkey profiles are under $HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey   
      
   The first-level .msf files are seamonkey/8chstrng.default/Mail/popname.msf   
   [popname is derived from the original server name, pop.xxx.net is one   
   and its msf file is pop.xxx.net.msf]   
   The second-level .msf files are the ones in subdirectory pop.xxx.net -   
   examples are Drafts.msf, Inbox.msf, Junk.msf, Sent.msf, Templates.msf,   
   Trash.msf   
   Since "Inbox" has subdirectories in my setup, there is an Inbox.sbd and   
   that contains the same structures for the subdirectories.  Some of those   
   subdirectories have subdirectories themselves.   
      
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