What version of IMail are you using? You said "I also tried inserting new ones after fixing it, and it broke every time." What did you insert and how? Was this done manually or through web mail? Any chance that you have been running into periodic disk full failures?
Tripp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Corrupt mailbox - dissection results > Hi, > > I started a thread earlier about mailboxes showing up in webmail as being > gigantic (varying size for each reload of page), while the mbx file itself > was only a few megs. Also, the user could not delete anything. After > clicking delete, the mailbox just showed up again, untouched. > Several of our users has encountered this problem. > > I've been dissecting one of those .mbx's. > This is the end of the still corrupt file: > > ----------- > (..end of last mail) > >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed Feb 11 11:16:57 2004 > >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed Feb 11 20:33:40 2004 > Received: (... more headers etc, then a plain text mail. No attachment or > anything..) > ----------- > > If I remove the last block: > ----------- > (..end of last mail) > >From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed Feb 11 11:16:57 2004 > (end of file) > ----------- > > or, ofcourse: > ----------- > (..end of last mail) > (end of file) > ----------- > > > > ... everything works perfectly. > Now for my questions: > > - How did two "From <addy>" lines end up right after each other without > anything between? The only user interaction with the mailbox has been > through webmail. > - Why does this break webmail at all? > > Oh, there were more than one two-or-more blocks of from-lines in the file. > It didn't start to work until every last one of them was fixed. I also tried > inserting new ones after fixing it, and it broke every time. Seems like a > permanent bug. > > This mail also goes to ipswitch support, in case they have a fix for it... > Thanks! > > Best regards, > Eric Carr > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
