Root mail account is dying

From: A. Rick Anderson (a_rick_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/02/05

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    Whenever I attempt to access mail from root, it pauses, then dies with
    the following error message.

    Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
    "/var/spool/mail/root": 47 messages 47 new
    >N 1 root@Anar.galarik.or Wed May 18 08:13 29/1103 "SMART error
    (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host: Anar"
      N 2 root@Anar.galarik.or Wed May 18 08:13 29/1106 "SMART error
    (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: Anar"
      N 3 root@Anar.galarik.or Thu May 19 02:03 26/989 "Cron
    <root@Anar> /usr/bin/yum -y upgrade"
    ...
    fseek: Invalid argument
    panic: temporary file seek
    Aborted
    You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root

    I am not worried about the particular messages being shown; I understand
    what is going on there (I get SMART messages whenever I reboot the
    machine). My concern is that I can't get into root's mail. 

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A. Rick Anderson
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