[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt mbox file

[Alton Pouncey]

Aaron Goldblatt wrote:
> 
> > True enough.  The only reason I asked is because from what I can see, it
> > looks fine.  I figured I'd see if somebody has some 'educated guessing'
> > (as you put it) script to fix the dern thing.  Oh well, maybe I had it
> > coming for not tarballing and starting the file over for so long.  It is
> > quite old (and large).  I'm sure I'll get over it...thanks anyway.
> 
> Usually just removing the offending message with a text editor will cure the
> problem.  The magic line looks something like:
> 
> >From ???@??? Mon Jul 31 20:29:01 2000
> 
> That'll be the first line of the message.  Delete that line of the offending
> message, to the same line of the next message (excluded), and your life might
> get back to normal.  As always, backup before you cut.
> 
> By the way, if anyone knows of a good mbox -> Maildir conversion utility I'd
> like to see it.  I currently use Maildir for storage of incoming mail, but
> then I use Kmail to pop it out to mbox.
> 
> I found mutt wanting in the ease of use category, and stuff that requires
> both fetchmail and procmail to read from my multitude of accounts is really
> annoying (especially since I've never found a good tutorial on regular
> expressions and so have no clue how they work).
> 
> In a related vein, a pointer to a Gnome or KDE client that supports Maildir
> would also be most appreciated.  Console isn't a problem, but as I said, mutt
> didn't tickle my fancy, and I hate Pine.
> 
> ag
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I've never used this perl mbox2maildir script, but, here it is:

http://qmail.goof.com/mbox2maildir

You can get to it and a bunch of other qmail goodies from:

http://qmail.goof.com/top.html

As far as a client program that reads maildir, there are two that I know
of - Netscape and Evolution.  You can get Evolution binaries at:

		 ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/

or get the source code at:

		http://www.ximian.com/devzone/source.html

Oh, MS Outlook (yeah, yeah, I know) can read Maildir as well.

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Alton R. Pouncey, II
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Director of Information Services
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