On Monday 06 July 2009 14:19:00 Charles Marcus wrote: > On 7/6/2009 6:06 AM, Alnis Morics wrote: > >> There have been a LOT of mbox fixes since 1.0.15, so I'd recommend going > >> ahead and moving to 1.2, which just went stable, but at least go to > >> 1.1.16... > > > > Thanx for advice. > > But shame to me -- after all the hassle, it turned out that the harddisk > > had a bad sector exatcly in the mbox file, and I didn't see it because I > > was doing all the things I wrote above, remotely. Fortunately, I managed > > to clone the hd with dd_rhelp. Now it's up and running again. > > I'd still upgrade if I were you... again, LOTS of mbox (and other) fixes > (improvements) since 1.0.15...
Sure. But, as concerns mbox, I already thought of migrating to Maildir. In this situation, I would just had lost one or a couple of mail messages instead of rendering the whole mailbox unreadable.
