Mail Issues #2...
Jul. 29th, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawaspWell, 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-07-30 04:08 pm (UTC)That error confirms something: line ends are messed up. So do this instead: "dd if=Inbox of=tempfile bs=1024 count=1024". That will give you an exactly 1MB tempfile. Edit that with Emacs. That will work even if the file is totally mangled. It may not be pretty but it will work.