On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:38:55PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Can anyone provide a reference for the sequence of commands/chatter
> that transpires when something like fetchmail goes to collect mail.
RFC 1725:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1725.html
> One of my mail boxes occassionally gets corrupted and I would like to
> clear it our with out deleteing the entire mailbox, which has been the
> option until now.
If the mailbox is corrupt, then using pop-3 to do anything with it may not
work. Since the mailbox is a plain text file, you could simply edit it
with your favourite text editor. Messages start with a line that starts
with "From " and are separated by a blank line. This is why you see
">From " in message bodies - the MTA inserts the `>' to prevent the string
being interpreted as the start of a new message.
Cheers,
John
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