AIEEE! The squid no longer responds to the mind control!

[seawasp]

Last night my Netscape hung and crashed and I had to force-quit it.

And now my Email's gone. It appears the Inbox is corrupt; I've managed to import most of the other mailboxes into MacMail, but trying to get Inbox crashes MacMail. Rebooting Netscape -- it doesn't acknowledge it HAS the account at all.

So I guess I have to go and try to edit the Inbox file and see if I can find the part of it (hopefully the header) that's killing everything, or else I've lost about 1.2GB of mail from 5 years through yesterday. :(

Comments

[dsrtao]

The mbox format is standard, and on a UNIX machine, I would run it through this:

formail -e -d -s inboxfile >> newinboxfile

which would dissect the old one message by message and put the good ones into newinboxfile.

You might lose something corrupt, but only that message.

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

Dude. Backups.

Not just backups you should have had, but backups starting RIGHT NOW with the corrupted file so that you can start over if you damage it further.