[NTLUG:Discuss] mbox repair util/script?

[agoats]

I won't say for sure, but what I've had happen is the summary file that
locates the position of the actual message sometimes gets corrupted.
This is true with Netscape, Mozilla and Thunderbird (both Windoze and
Linux versions). Delete the summary file and let the software rebuild
the summary file.

The cause is usually aborting either during a transfer between folders,
update or compaction where the data is being rewritten. I've had mbox
itself damage one message in a large file once in the years since I
first used Linux, but the summary files have been trashed many times over.

Alvin



. Daniel wrote:
>  
> Well this has happened twice so far and I'm wondering why.  My wife's 
> account on my mail server has twice managed to become corrupted in some 
> way.  (The time in between the incidents is greater than a year so I'm not 
> so much worried about the cause as I am about the correction.)
> 
> I have done a cursory search for a utility to scan and correct a damaged 
> mbox mail file and I am so far surprised that I haven't found any.  Perhaps 
> I have been searching for the wrong terms though (in my case, I searched 
> "mbox repair").  It's surprising to me because the mbox file format is just 
> so simple.  I'm sure I have overlooked something and that someone here will 
> have a recommendation right off the top of their heads.
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion for a simple, preferably command-line interfaced, 
> utility to repair damaged mbox mailboxes?
> 
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