David Morsberger wrote:
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?
Since mbx format adds some data at the beginning of the file you will
mess it up if you edit it as a text file. But you can recover emails
with special tools. I forgot which. But someone else undoubtedly knows.
But an alternative method could be to move INBOX to INBOX_old, do
something like <mailutil create "#driver.mbx/INBOX"> to create a fresh
mbx INBOX, or <touch INBOX> for unix format. Then edit INBOX_old and
remove every line at the start until you reach a "From:" which should be
the first line. It's now in "unix" format. Subscribe to INBOX_old in
your client and read/move/delete emails the way you're used to.
That way you shouldn't loose any email.
Good luck,
Jeroen
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