[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt mbox file

[R P Herrold]

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