Re: Mailbox corrupt by disk quota

[Matt Garretson]

Chris Miller wrote:
	what OS are you running? 


AIX 4.3.3 + qpopper 4.0.4 + procmail 3.22

Thanks for sharing your recovery method.  On my system, some
of the messages are in the temporary pop drop, and some are
still in the corrupted spool file.  I do something like this:
  lockfile /var/spool/mail/user.lock
  mv /var/spool/mail/user /tmp
  mail -f /tmp/user   (then just quit out of mail with "q")
  cat /var/tmp/pop/.user.pop /tmp/user > /var/spool/mail/user
    (at this point i either delete some old messages from the
     user's spool file, or increase the user's quota)
  chown user.mail /var/spool/mail/user
  rm -f /var/spool/mail/user.lock
Loading the spool file into "mail" seems to skip over the corrupted
beginning of the file, so when i quit out it gets saved without
the junk.  Maybe next time i will try using tail like you do.
-Matt