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04-06-2015

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Can't POP the mails off the server, the mailbox is corrupt!

First, please forgive me for my 2nd attempt to post in a Forum!
And btw, the Code Tags tutorial has the fonts and the sizes,
but when I am editing my post none of those fonts and sizes
are not there!

Code:

 SCO OpenServer(TM) Release 5 (worf.xxx.com) 

 Worf is our proxy & POP Server, and it runs the
LAN with windows PCs, wk2s & XPs. There are only
two of us that POP the mailbox from the Server
to the client, Eudora elena & me nancy!
Until now we never had a problem. 
elena can still POP, her email mailbox is just fine. 
 We use Eudora and for years we never
had a problem like this, but on March 12th,
I got errors on my nancy mailbox and I 
suddenly on March 12th can't POP 
the mails off the server's mailbox.

Eudora gave error info,
There has been an error transferring your mail.

and then the POP server [nancy@worf.yyy.com]
said: ERR Mail drop does not start with a From envelope line.

So I did this so I can open the mailboxes:
:

Code:

 # cd $M    # l 
-rw------- 1 nancy group 0 Mar 24 13:06 .nancy.pop 

drwxrwxrwt 2 mmdf mmdf 512 Aug 6 2001 :saved 
   -rw------- 1 elena group 0 Mar 29 21:55 elena <-- POP is Fine
  -rw------- 1 nancy group 16258932 Mar 29 21:36 nancy <-- POP
not working.

So I checked the mailboxes.
Code:
# mutt -f elena and I get into her mailbox
mutt came up and it's fine.
Code:
# mutt -f nancy and it says nancy is not a mailbox.
So the Server is ok, it's My mailbox is corrupt,
it had to be a bad email in my mailbox,
so Mutt can't get into my mailbox.
So I tried to get in with vi [ # cd vi /usr/nancy/ ] it said �nancy� does not exist.
I really want to get into my mailbox file but I haven't been able to find a way!
Meanwhile, my corrupt mailbox is receiving more and more emails in my �mailbox�!
If I can get in this file I could delete the bad emails and maybe that would fix it.
Or what would happen if I deleted the whole file?
And how can I delete a mailbox when �nancy� is not a mailbox and �nancy� does not exist.?
[CODE]
Does anybody out there have a way to get around this thing?
Since it has been two months March & April
so far I need to get those emails POPed off the the server and to my inbox on Eudora, so I don't loose them.
How can you get into a file when it doesn't have a valid file name?
[CODE]
-rw------- 1 nancy group 21852648 Apr 4 01:00 nancy < this is still growing! >
the path for mutt mailboxes
/usr/spool/mail/nancy
/usr/spool/mail/elena
[/ICODE]
/usr/spool/mail/nancy /usr/spool/mail/elena
Btw, I use Korn shell ksh (Enter)
I can get by with Unix but I am not a expert!

I really need to get my mailbox nancy fixed, so I can reply to all my members etc., people may think I am ignore then...
Thank you in Advance,
--Nancy

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