[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt mbox file

[Travis Bell]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:33:32PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> 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

Actually, it's not my mailbox file, but rather my sent-mail file that Mutt stores my sent emails in.  And it's not the first message because when I enter the 'folder' (really just a file in mbox format), I can see all of the emails I've sent except for the next-to-last one.  When I "tail -n100 sent-mail" I can see the message in there, though -- so it's there, but there's just something wrong with it.  I'm playing with it to see what part of it is messed up, but I'd like it very much if there's a utility which does it for me.  ;-)

-- 
Travis Bell
tjbell at usa dot net
http://www.mudpoet.org