Yeah the one thing I forgot to mention is that I run pine -f
/usr/local/var/mailtmp/.user.pop and remove all the messages marked as
"read".
Regards,
Chris
Chris Miller
NetGate Internet
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Matt Garretson wrote:
> 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
>
