From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 19:57:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E25106564A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:57:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071938FC15 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6971CC91; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:57:02 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:56:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080407084644.T69126@ns1.kq6up.org> <20080408113654.W77997@ns1.kq6up.org> <20080408193245.GA87804@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080408193245.GA87804@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804082157.00491.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Jerry McAllister , Chris Maness Subject: Re: Mail Spool Problems / IMAP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:57:54 -0000 On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:32:45 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:42:41AM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Chris Maness wrote: > > >>How is this header look? I am not quite sure of what I am looking for. > > > > > >That seems to be fine. If it was corrupted, you'd see a line or a few > > >lines of obvious binary garbage... > > > > > >-- > > >-Chuck > > > > It does seem like something something is corrupt. What can I do to reset > > everything and restore everything so that thunderbird can read my inbox > > again. I have contempalted deleting the user, but I'm not sure if that > > will delete what ever is corrupted. > > Very often it is only one character out of place. Each header should > start with 'From' in the beginning of a line Since you mention one character, it should actually be starting with 'From ' and any line that starts with 'From ' that is not the start of a mail should be changed to '>From ' before ending up in the mbox file. This test weeds it out, allthough there's still room for false positives, easily resolved by the human brain: grep '^From ' /var/mail/myloginname |grep -v '200[78]$' -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.