[X-Apps] locked mail

[Wright-Miller]

Gretchen,

Thank you for your response.
The rebuild mailbox area is grayed out (read only and open anyhow). How 
do I go about doing the other suggestion or un-graying the rebuild 
mailbox?

thanks in advance.

Suzanne


On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 02:32  PM, Gretchen Hayman wrote:

>
> On Friday, Apr 25, 2003, at 16:08 US/Central, Wright-Miller wrote:
>
>> I am using mail 1.2.5 and I keep getting this error message each time 
>> I go to my inbox. I have tried unlocking it (made no diffference). I 
>> have used keychain first aid and have verified permissions and  
>> verified the disk using the OSX install CD first aid. Any ideas?
>
> Have you tried rebuilding the mailbox?  Open it read only and then use 
> the Rebuild Mailbox from the Mailbox menu and see if that might do the 
> trick.  Otherwise, you can certainly do this from the CLI using 
> Terminal.  However, let's see if the easy thing works first. :)
>
> There is already a lock file for your mail box, so you can't write 
> another one for your current session.  Perhaps Mail quit unexpectedly 
> or something like that.   When an application shuts down properly, it 
> does housekeeping and removes locks files.  If it doesn't have a 
> chance to shutdown properly (kernel panic, application 
> crashi...er...unexpectedly quitting), then sometimes these lock files 
> may not get removed.
>
> (I used to run into this sometimes with netscape crashing on linux; 
> I'd have to go in via CLI and remove the lock file manually.)
>
> Gretchen
>
>
>
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