[pmmail-list] Help! PMMail/2 2.20.2382

[Hayo Baan]

On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:15:27 +0100, Simon Bowring wrote:

>1) System crash caused some system dll's to become corrupted
>>   Do you have a backup?  If so, restore it.
>I've reinstalled it!

You mean, even a system backup did not help?

>>2) File system and or files are corrupted
>>   You've probably already done that, but run chkdsk /f:3
>Yeah done that
>
>>Other possible solution/work-arounds could be:
>>Install pmmail in a new directory (next to the old one), configure your 
account, 
>>and try to receive mail from there.  If this works, your original installation 
>>is somehow corrupted.  You could then one by one copy-over files and settings 
to 
>>build-up the new environment to resemble your old.
>I have dozens of filters and rexx exits etc :-((  I may try that
>but time's gonna be very tight!

First try to see if you can receive messages, then think about the moving part.  
It might be the case that you are suffering a bug in pmmail that causes pmmail 
to crash upon receipt of a certain message.  Can't say I've seen this (been 
using pmmail since version 1.x as well, I think I received ten-thousands of 
mesages by now), but who knows...

>>
>>Note by the way, you can safely rename the root of the install directory, 
>Yeah I know.
>
>I've been using PMMail since v1.x from Southside and it's happily
>handled 10s or 100s of 1000s of messages and I've never had a 
>serious problem with it before!

Good luck again (and happy hollidays),
	Hayo



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