mbox repair tool

Andrew L. Gould algould
Mon May 17 12:01:36 PDT 2004


On Friday 23 April 2004 09:28 am, M.W. Chang wrote:
> Is there a program that would repair a linux system mailbox (mbox)?

I think formail may help; it's part of procmail.  I used it when mutt gave me 
a message that the mail file format was invalid (or something to that 
effect).

Try this:
formail -ds < old_mailbox >> new_mailbox

Best regards,

Andrew Gould



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