mailbox problems

Hello,

I do have a question for the eudora specialists:

I am running Eudora pro 6.2.5.6.

Do have a couple of mailboxes, so the mail comes in in IN.mbx and get
immediately transferred
to a mailbox called ddsin.mbx.
Unfortunately I lost my 5year old ddsin.mbx, it was deleted by a
antivirus program.

I did have a backup from last February, put that on my computer, and
all looks fine.

But of course there is a gap from February till July.

I do have the mail still on the server( because Leave mail on server
is ticked) , but Eudora does NOT download this, because it downloaded
it before.

How can I trick the program so it thinks it is all new mail?

Would be nice if someone can help me,


much appreciated,

regards Richard

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:51:02 -0500, Richard wrote:

> Unfortunately I lost my 5 year old ddsin.mbx,
> it was deleted by an antivirus program.

Many such programs maintain a "Quarantine" or "Virus vault," etc.,
and permit an "Undo" or "Restore" action for recovery
(then turn the scanner off, long enough to make an encrypted
zip backup, which then can't be re-scanned).

> I do have the mail still on the server( because Leave mail on server
> is ticked) , but Eudora does NOT download this,
> because it downloaded it before.
> How can I trick the program so it thinks it is all new mail?

Deleting file(s) named "lmos.dat" (while not running Eudora)
will erase Eudora's recollection
of what it's previously downloaded,
after which it will "get déjà vu all over again"

However, that pesky virus scanner could also just
"bite the same stranger" when it returns,
so it might be worthwhile to see what's triggering that,
and see whether it can be eliminated for good.

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Hold down the Shift Key while clicking "check mail" (or press
Ctrl-Shift-M)

Select the appropriate personality

Select the radio button "using the options to the left"

The bottom option on the left is "Download all mail on the server to
the inbox." (o/a)

Not exactly what you want, but it is better than nothing.

I've never actually tried using it. Don't know what it actually does.

Fred Holmes

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT), richzan@gmail.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I do have a question for the eudora specialists:
>
>I am running Eudora pro 6.2.5.6.
>
>Do have a couple of mailboxes, so the mail comes in in IN.mbx and get
>immediately transferred
>to a mailbox called ddsin.mbx.
>Unfortunately I lost my 5year old ddsin.mbx, it was deleted by a
>antivirus program.
>
>I did have a backup from last February, put that on my computer, and
>all looks fine.
>
>But of course there is a gap from February till July.
>
>I do have the mail still on the server( because Leave mail on server
>is ticked) , but Eudora does NOT download this, because it downloaded
>it before.
>
>How can I trick the program so it thinks it is all new mail?
>
>Would be nice if someone can help me,
>
>
>much appreciated,
>
>regards Richard

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:47:34 -0500:

> Select the radio button "using the options to the left"

> The bottom option on the left is
> "Download all mail on the server to the inbox." (o/a)

If your version says "Fetch all message headers to In mailbox,"
then that's only headers, not the complete messages,
but _then_ you can select all of those,
change the "server status" to "fetch,"
and check again, finally getting what's desired.

Catching them all depends a bit on not having
any automatic "sorting" of the "In" mailbox,
which might "scatter" the incoming headers,
making it hard to locate all as one block
and then mark all as "fetch";
you could perhaps first empty the "In" mailbox
(by transferring all to some other "new" mailbox),
which would head off any such possibility.

Or just delete "lmos.dat" (per personality)
to re-download absolutely everything

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