one more thing you could try is to delete the mbox.ibex* files. might work. *shrug*
Jeff On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:20, Dave Coventry wrote: > Jeff, > > Did a 'df', I have 4.5 Gig free, should be enough. > > As I said, although I have Mutt on my box, I don't have Pine and have never > knowingly used either of them. > > I rather suspect that rieserfs journalling is to blame through a power loss. > (although the box is a laptop, the battery is goosed so it must stay premenantly > tethered to the power supply). So it would be difficult to reproduce. > > If the mbox were corrupted, I would expect there to be some evidence of this in the > Inbox, which appears to be perfectly sound. > > Is there any way of extracting the info (including attachements) out of the mbox? > Then I could discard it and start again. > > Many thanks, > > Dave > > > > > --- Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 00:53, Des Dougan wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:59, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > uh, I hope not. camel is pretty careful about error checking, > > > > Sorry to butt in with a couple of newbie questions, but what is camel? > > Is it the back-end processing engine that Evo uses? > > camel is the mail access/parsing library used by evolution. > > > > > > > > > if you can find a way to reproduce corruption of the mbox file and/or > > > the summary > > > > And what are summary files, and what are they used for? > > summary files contain a summary of what messages are in the folder. they > are used for generating the message-list so that we don't have to parse > the mbox file every time. this is why evolution is so much faster than > mutt and pine and many other mailers. > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
