Re: [Evolution] Mbox corruption, etc?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Sounds like you didn't correctly remove the offending message. We really
don't suggest editing mbox files unless you really know what you are
doing.

Jeff

On 11 Apr 2001 09:34:32 -0700, Phil Schwartz wrote:
> I had an existing local/Inbox/mbox and related files using evo 0.9.  I
> recently received a message that upon viewing it would crash evo
> everytime.  I couldn't even highlight it and then delete it because evo
> would still try to display it (which would result in a crash).  After
> repeating this problem 5 or 6 times I decided to edit to mbox file
> directly and remove the offending message.  However, upon doing so, evo
> could no longer read the mbox at all.  I tried moving the
> mbox.ev-summary and mbox.ibex files out of the way, thinking that evo
> would recreate them from the raw mbox file.  However, this was not the
> case.
>
> Is there any way to salvage this situation?  
>
> I tried importing the modified file but that crashed too.  D'oh.
>
> Phil
>
>
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