Sendmail/dovecot error

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:19 -0500, Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has seen this error in  dovecot:
> 
> Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/username: LF not found where expected
> 
> I believe this is due to a corrupt mailbox, however, I don't have a way 
> to check the mailbox.  I did put a new on in place and everything 
> works.
> Is there a way to check for corrupt messages within a mailbox?

You could try repairing the mbox file:

$ formail -ds <old_mailbox >>new_mailbox

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>