On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:27:24PM -0400, Joe Hill wrote: > > Hey y'all! > > I was hit by the big blackout like so many of you I am sure, in the > middle of composing a mail message. > > The power just came back on and when I booted up and logged in, gkrellm > shows I have 300 messages in my spool, but when I hit "get all", > nothing happens. I have shut down fetchmail for now and am popping my > ISP directly, but I wonder how I can get Sylpheed to retrieve those > accumulated mails from my spool? Is there some way I can import them > manually into my Sylpheed folder? > > Any help *very* greatly appreciated!
Welcome back, Joe! I had something similar happen to me once where gkrellm told me I had a million mails, but when I opened sylpheed I didn't have any. It turned out to be some mess-up in /var/spool/mail/me--I opened the file and saw that the first line was blank. I deleted the blank line, saved it, and then everything was OK. You'll notice that the spool is just the messages with a blank line separating each one. If it ain't the first line, maybe you can just grep for "From " (include the space because that would be different than "From:" of course) and make sure there's a blank line in front of it (except the very first message). HTH, Todd -- Name that tune #17: So you say there's a race of men in the trees; you're for tough legistlation.
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