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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.
> >
> > 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.
FIXED: thanks, guys! Seems mbox signals the start of a new message
with the line
# From email@address.com Mon Dec 09 2002 -GMT thing
(no colon following From; # added so as not to confuse the box with
this message)
The original From: header has a colon and no time info.
Well, some of these got corrupted and the Date: header line on some
messages was corrupted also. Seems like chunks of text just got
deleted and had to be resupplied to make it work again. Quite easy
though.
I am wondering how it happened. I do not regularly use mutt, but I do
sometimes. Like my prior comment on emacs and vim, I appreciate the
speed and austerity, but I just don't "get" the commands. Also, kmail
has allowed me to create multiple levels of subfolders that mutt
doesn't seem to be able to access (It only seems to be able to change
to top level folders that are represented by a text document.) Was it
caused by the slight differences in these MUAs and trying to read the
same folders in both? That's when it seemed to start.
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