Mail Issues #2...

[seawasp]

Well, I switched from Netrape Aggravator to the Mac Mail program for the interim.

So far, I can't get any of the obvious applications to open (a copy of) the original mail file. Word of course doesn't recognize it, TextEdit refuses it, and when I tried:

"formail -e -d -s inboxfile >> newinboxfile"

(substituting "Inbox" for "inboxfile" and "NewInbox" for "newinboxfile")

my console just sorta sat there for, well, a long time until I finally killed it off. There was a new file called "NewInbox", but it had nothing in it.

Any more ideas? I've got like 1.2GB of mail file sitting there mocking me. I'm sure MOST of it must be perfectly fine.

Comments

[seawasp]

Using that line above gets the following response:

tr: Illegal byte sequence

If I try Text Edit it refuses to open -- something about not being the right encoding.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

The heck? Okay, that's wack. It means you don't have a text file since tr only works on plain text. It doesn't like non-ASCII. I think I'm at the point where I'd have to look at the file to see what's wrong with it and how to fix it. Sorry. That file is really messed up somewhere.

Are you *absolutely* positive that you have the right file?

[seawasp]

Sure as I can be. Came from /Users/rykspoor/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/Sea Wasp/herpkqhe.slt/Mail/mail.sgeinc.com, and it's the only mail file of that size -- a size that makes sense as it's all my mail from 2003-2004 onward.

[m0rlock.livejournal.com]

The mostly equivalent command in perl to ninjarat's tr command is

perl -npe 's/\r//g' Inbox > NewInbox

It ought to be a little more effective on the non-text portions of your Inbox.