[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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