[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /home/foo/mail/Trash

[Jethro R Binks]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:22 +0100, Jethro R Binks wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Phil Roffe wrote:
> > 
> > > We had a problem with this several months ago.  The alarming aspect of the
> > > corruption is when it occurs at the beginning of an email (i.e.
> > > ^@^@^@From:...).  Emails can be lost/appended to the bottom of the previous
> > > email.
> > 
> > Isn't that the delimiter format for one of the other mailbox formats that 
> > is a bit like mbox?
> ..
> > ... I think is it "MMDF" described this page: 
> 
> Nope. MMDF uses "^A^A^A^A\n" as the separator. ^@ means NUL character. 

Ah, that was it ...


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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK