Hi, Jim. :-)
> For some reason, the INBOX folder was reporting 1100 GIGAbyte size and
> therefore the 1.6GB drive was report zero free space. This was, however,
> initially not noticed by me (since the drive is on another computer, via
> LAN)...
Um, 1100 Gigabytes in a 1.6 GB drive? That should be 1.1 GB, right?
> The matter of the gigantic INBOX i will leave until later, as there may
> be some strange but famous 'uqwk tailings' in there messing up the size
> count...
Ah, those. I've become very careful about sending commands to uqwk. Is
there any chance that it'll be upgraded? I'm wary about applying
patches posted by some random hacker, as long as they haven't been
"endorsed" by the original author, because I have no idea what other
bugs they may introduce. Particularly if I apply two patches from
independent programmers, who may not be aware of each other.
> PS: Not only the above, but restoring the just imported (and not
> shown) mail packet again resulted in a display of about a dozen letters
> for INBOX and NO additional mail actually in the inbox, _and_ no change
> to "You have new mail" -- so apparently the IDs of the letters were
> registered the first import, when the letters could not be added to the
> inbox, and now it's not possible to import them because they appear to
> be duplicates. (I guess I'll have to unzip the packet and read them
> RAW from the .MSG file!)
It can't be that. I have on occasion imported the same packet more than
once. In the newsgroup, all messages are rejected as duplicates, but in
the folders, such as INBOX, they get imported once more with no trouble,
even if the originals are still there with the same Message-ID.
Yngvar