From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 23 19:14:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E779616A4DE for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:14:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83EA43D7D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:14:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i31so688112wxd for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr2367996wxc; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i11sm5643556wxd.2006.07.23.12.14.07; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:14:23 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom 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> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060723151137.CF34.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] Subject: Re: Corrupt MBOX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:14:17 -0000 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