Originally Posted by RudiC

Not sure I understand your problem entirely, but could you save your nancy file to a backup, and then chop it off to zero size (e.g. by >nancy on the command line)?
Later you can work on the backup trying to retrieve as many mails as possible.

Well, the problem is that my mailbox nancy /usr/spool/mail/nancy # mutt -f nancy and it says nancy is not a mailbox, so mutt can't get into my mailbox nancy, And I tried to get in with vi [ # cd vi /usr/nancy/ ] it said “nancy” does not exist. So my mailbox file name is user nancy, but “nancy” can't be the file name because it doesn’t exist and it isn't a mailbox. And RudiC, could you show me how to do a backup for nancy file. Thank you!
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Originally Posted by RudiC

Not sure I understand your problem entirely, but could you save your nancy file to a backup, and then chop it off to zero size (e.g. by >nancy on the command line)?
Later you can work on the backup trying to retrieve as many mails as possible.
Well, the problem is that my mailbox nancy
/usr/spool/mail/nancy # mutt -f nancy and it says nancy is not a mailbox,
so mutt can't get into my mailbox nancy,
And I tried to get in with vi [ # cd vi /usr/nancy/ ]
it said “nancy” does not exist. So my mailbox file
name is user nancy, but “nancy” can't be the file name because it doesn't exist
and it isn't a mailbox. And RudiC, could you show me how to do a
backup for nancy file.

Well, the problem is that my mailbox nancy
/usr/spool/mail/nancy # mutt -f nancy and it says nancy is not a mailbox,
so mutt can't get into my mailbox nancy,
And I tried to get in with vi [ # cd vi /usr/nancy/ ]
it said “nancy” does not exist.
So my mailbox file name is user nancy, but “nancy” can't be the file name because it doesn't exist and it isn't a mailbox. And RudiC, could you show me how to do a backup for nancy file. Well, the problem is that my mailbox nancy /usr/spool/mail/nancy # mutt -f nancy and it says nancy is not a mailbox, so mutt can't
get into my mailbox nancy, And I tried to get in with vi [ # cd vi /usr/nancy/ ] it said “nancy” does not exist. So my mailbox file name is user nancy, but “nancy” can't be the file name because it doesn't exist and it isn't a mailbox. And RudiC, could you show me how to do a backup for nancy file.

Originally Posted by jgt

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.

Mutt -f nancy nancy is not a mailbox.
-rw------- 1 nancy group 21 Apr 6 20:03 nancy and the emails went somewhere....
-rw------- 1 nancy group 11697 Apr 6 21:05 nancy <-- is still receiving emails
-rw------- 1 nancy group 633980 Apr 6 21:30 nancy
-rw------- 1 root sys 24053921 Apr 6 20:01 new_user
mutt -f new_user: Permission denied (errno = 13) mutt -f new_user
new_user is not a mailbox.so I still can't into that.

-rw------- 1 root sys 24053921 Apr 6 20:01 new_user

And I still can't POP the mail nancy and new_user

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.
Maby I didn't do your code correctly? I put the code in the way you put it.
Boy this is a mess! I appreciate your help!