CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Mutt does corrupt if it cannot recover from this situation without
>corrupting the mailbox. It's not that the mailbox is saved, intact
It should _not_ find itself in such a situation. Tell you what - move
your mailboxes to another partition and create symlinks.
Something like this (btw, first change to single-user mode by logging in
as su. so nobody else uses the mail program at that time)
#Copy the files from /var/spool/mail to /new1/mail
#(new1 on a different partition)
cp -rp /var/spool/mail /new1
#(-rp = recursive preserve)
# use chown on each file, making everything
# identical to the original directories.
cp -rp /var/spool/mqueue /new1
chown username filename
# Remove the original files
cd /var/spool
rm -rf mqueue
rm -rf mail
#soft links
ln -s /var/spool/mqueue /new1/mqueue
ln -s /var/spool/mail /new1/mail
# reboot
shutdown -r now
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not
signed.
-- Christopher Morley
