[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt mbox file
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Tue Oct 30 20:33:32 CST 2001
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Travis Bell wrote:
> Does anyone know of a program out there that can repair a
> corrupt mbox file? A search on google turned up nothing.
> I was quite surprised.
... your favorite test editor will do just fine. Usually it
is just the first message which is corrupt -- There was an
exploit against older UW pop servers which used this.
Remember to fully stop sendmail, so it does not try to append
to a file while you are in edit.
-- Russ
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