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Re: [PLUG] Corrupted inbox
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On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:53 am, you, William H. Magill, wrote:
> On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 04:41 PM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:13:55PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> >> My inbox somehow got corrupted. In mutt messages seem to start
> >> and end
> >> in random places meaning that the beginning of the next message is
> >> part
> >> of the current message. In kmail, which I usually use, messages
> >> seem to get trashed as I select them. That is, When I select the
> >> most recent message, what is displayed is the middle of some
> >> message with no
> >> headers, and the message is moved to the top of the list where old
> >> and undated messages are usually placed.
> >>
> >> This only is happening to my inbox, not my other folders.
> >>
> >> I seem to recall some utility for repairing corrupted inboxes, but
> >> can't seem to find it. Any suggestions?
> >
> > First, if you haven't done it yet, move the inbox somewhere where
> > it won't be touched accidentally, and make a copy of that, so that
> > you can afford to make a few mistakes before you figure out the
> > right way to fix it.
> >
> > Take a look at it under emacs or something and see if you can see
> > what's going on. The mbox format is pretty regular and easy.
>
> The most frequent corruption is a "long" line of some non-printable
> character.
>
> The culprit is usually quite obvious when you look at the file in
> emacs.
I searched the kde sites and, though I found no tools at
http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html, I did find some stuff in the online
manual there that described the mbox format and contrasted it with
maildir and the very similar Eudora and Pegasus formats.
I'm going to try to fix it in a gui editor like kate or nedit because
the key-bindings in emacs and vim confuse the hell out of me. ; ^{D>
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