From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   On 22/08/2025 9:06 am, bey24thgfdhg wrote:   
   > bey24thgfdhg 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 never said I was running Thunderbird at this time, I googled this   
   >> issue and it has been described as a bug in Thunderbird.   
   >   
   > Here is a link to one reportÖ   
   >   
   > https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1foy7av/problem_   
   hunderbird_creates_inbox1_2_3_folders/   
   >   
   > Does not SeaMonkey and Thunderbird share code? Possibly this code?   
      
   Back in the day, there was Mosaic (which I have never knowingly used)   
   then came Netscape Navigator (browser only) then came Netscape   
   Communicator which had Browser, e-mail and (I think) HTML Composer.   
      
   Then Netscape finished their development so released the Code to the   
   World .... when Mozilla continued the development of the Suite as   
   Mozilla Suite.   
      
   Mozilla then decide to finish development of the Suite and, instead,   
   decided on seperate programs, Firefox for Web Browsing and Thunderbird   
   for e-mail/news and released the Suite Code to the World. Sort of like   
   direct opposition for MS Internet Explorer whatever 'they' called their   
   e-mail agent.   
      
   An independant group of programmers decided to continue the Suite   
   development under the name SeaMonkey Internet Suite.   
      
   Then, apparently, Mozilla discontinued development of Thunderbird.   
      
   So, because they stem from the same code, they DO, to a greater or   
   lessor extent, share Code .... although they are diverging.   
      
   HTH   
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   Daniel70   
      
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