Re: Extract mail from /var/mail/spool

From: R. McFarlane (yarhl_at_mcfarlanecomputing.net)
Date: 11/10/03

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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:42:31 -0800

    At 02:26 AM 11/10/2003, Krishna, had this to say :

    >Hi,
    >
    > I want to extract mail from one of the mail files stored in
    >/home/spool/mail.
    > This is a Cobalt RAQ server.
    > I had problems downloading mail from this account as I was getting
    >this error
    > "change recognition mode or check for corrupted mail drop"
    >
    > So I just deleted the user but took a backup of his mail and created
    >a new one.
    >
    > Now I want to extract the old mail file.
    >
    >regards,
    >Krishna
    >
    >Krishna Shekhar, RHCE
    >Network/Systems Engineer
    >Spectranet
    >http://www.spectranet.com

    That error message "change recognition mode or check for corrupted mail
    drop" usually indicates a corrupt mailbox file or wrong permissions or
    simply the first line is empty when it should be a "from" line. Check the
    permissions first then if they are okay, use vi to edit the file and check
    to see if the first line is empty. If the first line is empty then remove it.

    Sincerely,

    R. McFarlane

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