[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt mbox file

[Travis Bell]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:06:09PM -0500, cbbrowne at cbbrowne.com wrote:
> Something funny's up with your client, too; your messages are
> definitely not conforming to the "try to keep width to < 75 cols" that
> is typical; the text you enter winds up getting broken arbitrarily at
> some number of columns, often in the middle of words...
> 
> All of the above represents a pretty good argument against the use of
> the "mbox" format for anything of any importance.  It's challenging
> enough to keep things well behaved with Sendmail when it tries to lock
> /var/spool/mbox/$LOGNAME, but trying to do this with arbitrary home
> directories where something like procmail could be throwing in
> messages concurrently with reading mail is just asking for trouble.
> 
> Using either MH or Maildir "formats" is a whole lot safer...

Well, I've been meaning to switch to qmail anyway...perhaps I'll change
to Maildir format at the same time.  In the mean time, I still have a
corrupt mbox file.  Perhaps there's a mbox -> Maildir converter that will
fix it as it changes the format?

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Travis Bell
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