mbox repair tool

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
>>>Is there a program that would repair a linux system mailbox (mbox)?
>>repair it from what?  mbox is plaintext
>
>Something to take out any corrupted message within the file.

Why use a speciel program when the vi editor is fine for this.  Messages
are separated by lines starting with ``From '' (space after the m).

It's a different story if the mailbox is Mark Crispin's UW Imap MBX format.
I wrote a program to convert these to Maildir a couple of years ago, and
would have to look at it to see what I did then.  If I remember correctly
it requires some tools not normally built with U.W. Imap.

Bill
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