Re: [Evolution] Help with corrupted mbox

[Mark Burling <mburling bellsouth net>]

Aaron, 

can't help with the mbox problem, but I have had this happen myself.  If
this is a POP mail server you can use http://www.mailstart.com/ to
access your mail account.  I look for the last message downloaded before
evolution hung and then delete the next message in the list.  This will
usually take care of the problem.  999 times out of the proverbial 1000
the message that caused the problem is spam so before I delete the
message I try to unsubscribe if possible, if not . . . 


On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 15:26, Aaron Zuercher wrote:
> Hello,
> I did a very stupid thing and now I need help pulling my can out of the
> fire.   I am using Beta 3 (0.13) and today I got a piece of junk mail
> that would hang Evo whenever I tried to open or delete it.  So I decided
> to open my mbox folder in VI and delete the message manually.  I did
> that, but when I went back into Evo it game me an error about not being
> able to find message ID 2950, or any message after that.  And when it
> tries to synch the mbox it tells me there is an error.  Now the stupid
> part is that I did not make a backup of the mbox file before I started
> messing with it.
>
> Can someone help me get this straigtened out?  I think I need to
> renumber the messages in mbox so it can associate them correctly.
> However if this can't be done, is there a way to salvage the messages
> before the problem message?  This problem is only affecting 15-20
> messages that arrived today, and most of them aren't important.  If I
> have to lose them that is fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
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Mark


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