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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can't POP the mails off the server, the mailbox is corrupt! Post 302940513 by jgt on Monday 6th of April 2015 05:09:11 PM
Old 04-06-2015
The location of the mail box is controlled by the contents of the file "/usr/mmdf/mmdftailor" regardless of whether mmdf or sendmail is the mail processor.
The mail messages in the mailbox are separated with 4 <ctrl>A characters on a line by itself. One at the beginning of the email, and one at the end. So emails in the middle of the file have 2 <ctrl>A lines in a row. You could fix the file using vi, but that may be problematic with a 16mb file.
An alternative is to create a new user in scoadmin, and exit a # prompt.
Code:
#cd /usr/spool/mail
#cp nancy new_user
#cat >nancy
<ctrl>d
#ls -l nancy 
output should show that nancy has a size of 0

.
You have now isolated the problem mail box, which you can process using mutt, and nancy's mailbox is cleared of any errors.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

from

from(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  from(1B)

NAME

       from - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/from [-s sender] [username]

DESCRIPTION

       The  from utility prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file to show you who your mail is from. If  username is specified, user-
       name's mailbox is examined instead of your own.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -s sender       Only display headers for mail sent by  sender.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /var/mail/*

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Jan 2004 							  from(1B)
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