Ugent: ccn: inbox is not in valid mailbox format

Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:06:00 -0300
From: Landon Boyd <landon@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca>
To: beta-pine@chebucto.ns.ca
Cc: Andrew Dacey <ac213@chebucto.ns.ca>, csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca,
References: <97May14.152722adt.44634(1)@chebucto.ns.ca> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970514165604.1178E-100000@cs.dal.ca>
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On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 04:57:14PM -0300, David Trueman wrote:
> 
> 
> I have backed out the new pine on CCN until the problems can be tracked
> down.  Andrew, I have tried to restore your mailbox -- it was well
> trashed with the beginning of each header mangled.


It may be worth noting that I was talking to Andrew on the phone when
he was having the problems and I noticed that there were NULL characters
in his inbox.  I thought this might be the problem, so I loaded the file
into vi and wrote it out to get rid of the NULLs.  This would have been
before you looked at it.

> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Andrew Dacey wrote:
> 
> > When I logged on today and opened mail I got an error saying unparsable
> > date format. It didn't seem to be affecting me at all though other than it
> > kept beeping at me for awhile. When I quit pine to do something (planning
> > on returning in a moment) it was fine. When I reopened pine I got a
> > message:
> > [inbox (file /usr/spool/mail/ac213) is not in valid mailbox format]
> > 
> > and now I can't open my inbox! I've got easily another 50 messages that I
> > can't read now! Help!
> > 
> > I've sent this to csuite-tech too in case it needs to be fixed in the
> > distribution too.
> > 
> > Update!: I'm now writing this message from a mailto link that I created in
> > another window as my original bug report hung when I tried to send it from
> > inside pind. (it's hung on sending mail 0%)
> > 
> > 
> 
>   David Trueman,
>     Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
>     Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
> 

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