My INBOX appears to be corrupted. Every imap client now gives us an error
when we try to download a message. It appears the mbx header is missing.

Can anyone help recover my mail?

Mac OS 10.4 Tiger with all updates

mmp-morsberger-com:/var/log root# telnet localhost imap
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS
AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2004.357 at Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:30:13 -0500
(EST)

mmp-morsberger-com:~/Library/Mail/IMAP graphicartist$ file *
Deleted Items: MBX mail folder
Drafts:        MBX mail folder
INBOX:         ASCII mail text, with CRLF line terminators
Junk E-mail:   MBX mail folder
Sent Items:    MBX mail folder


mmp-morsberger-com:~/Library/Mail/IMAP graphicartist$ ls -l
total 14233448
-rw-------   1 graphica  graphica     2480209 Feb 24 22:39 Deleted Items
-rw-------   1 graphica  graphica    45905388 Feb 25 14:42 Drafts
-rw-------   1 graphica  graphica  2161936035 Feb 25 20:42 INBOX
-rw-------   1 graphica  graphica    81048740 Feb 25 20:14 Junk E-mail
\-rw-------   1 graphica  graphica  2786848686 Feb 25 21:10 Sent Items
\
INBOX should be a MBX mail folder.

> more INBOX
25-Feb-2008 20:00008b1d500,12304;000000000000-00008b1d
Received: via dmail-2006f.13 for graphicartist; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:42:53
-0500 (EST)


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