Use formail (comes with procmail) to split the inbox into separate
messages, then cat the output together into a new mbox file. You might
get some damaged messages but they were damaged already. The undamaged
ones should be readable. The formail man page has this example:
formail -ds <old_mailbox >>new_mailbox
poc
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:17 -0800, John Taylor wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My Evolution e-mail inbox has been corrupted. It might be because it
> was too big or because my 2 yr old son pushed the red button on the
> office power bar while it was running. With help, I renamed the file
> (old_inbox) and started a new one that works. But, I get the following
> error when I try to read messages in the old inbox: Failed to get lock
> using Fcntl(2): Resource temporarily unavailable.
> I re-indexed the old one but that didn't solve the problem. I also
> re-installed Evolution and that didn't help. I've concluded that
> there's something in the old inbox (until now I hadn't realized that the
> inbox in just one great big file), but how do I find and removed this
> things that's causing the error? I can search that file using grep, and
> read old messages in an editor so it isn't completely useless. But I'd
> like to make it Evolution friendly again. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Taylor
> University of Victoria
>
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