Re: [Evolution] inbox_problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

Use formail (comes with procmail) to split the inbox into separate
messages, then cat the output together into a new mbox file. You might
get some damaged messages but they were damaged already. The undamaged
ones should be readable. The formail man page has this example:

        formail -ds <old_mailbox >>new_mailbox

poc

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:17 -0800, John Taylor wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My Evolution e-mail inbox has been corrupted.  It might be because it 
> was too big or because my 2 yr old son pushed the red button on the 
> office power bar while it was running. With help, I renamed the file 
> (old_inbox) and started a new one that works. But, I get the following 
> error when I try to read messages in the old inbox: Failed to get lock 
> using Fcntl(2): Resource temporarily unavailable.
> I re-indexed the old one but that didn't solve the problem. I also 
> re-installed Evolution and that didn't help.  I've concluded that 
> there's something in the old inbox (until now I hadn't realized that the 
> inbox in just one great big file), but how do I find and removed this 
> things that's causing the error?  I can search that file using grep, and 
> read old messages in an editor so it isn't completely useless. But I'd 
> like to make it Evolution friendly again.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Taylor
> University of Victoria
>
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