Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:14:23 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupt MBOX Message-ID: <20060723151137.CF34.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20060723115126.0252d280@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <20060722131648.76D3.GERARD@seibercom.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20060723115126.0252d280@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote: > The problem is caused by bad headers that trip up pop. Pop reads the email > file looking for the headers and the body of the message. If the header is > not complete, pop servers give an error and quit. This usually causes > users to get multiple copies of mail until the error is encountered or no > pop email at all. > > The only way I have found to fix this is to either use pine and delete the > bad message. Pine is better at handling mal-formed headers. Or to use a > webmail interface to delete the bad email. > > -Derek Actually, I installed Dovecot and the problem seems to have dissipated. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net While I am looking at an object I can not imagine it. Wittgenstein
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