[H-GEN] Mailbox files

[Mike Andrew]

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From: Marshall, Joshua <MarshallJ at switch.aust.com>
> I have some mail box files (in /var/spool/mail) that are corrupted. I'm
> wondering if there's a way I can repair them (They're about 6Mb each)
> instead of just deleting them. I'm running Sendmail.

because of corruption, automated tools don't help too much.

i hand edit the things. 6meg is not frightening when you consider a lot of
that is going to be some damn jpg attachment.

My experience has been the corruption appears in the first dozen messages,
so 6meg is not scanned.

simply (HA!) edit with joe or vi and cut out each message beginning with the
From: field which is always separated by a blank line above from the
previous message.


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