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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:41:00PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| * Greg Ward <gward@???> [20020618 20:13]: wrote:
| > On 18 June 2002, Odhiambo G. Washington said:
| > > I am running Exim on a box and I am delivering mail to mbox. The problem
| > > I am having is that ocassionally I end up with a corrupted mbox. I did
| > > a careful analysis and found that when the corruption happens, the last
| > > e-mail appended to the mbox does have it's last contents at the very
| > > top of the mbox file. I then have to manually edit the file to correct
| > > this anomally as the user is unable to access the maibox.
| >
| > Locking problem perhaps?
That's the most likely cause of mbox corruption. It's a good reason
to use a different mailstore (eg maildir).
Are you trying to use NFS?
| > > I am attaching one of such mbox that I used for analysis.
| >
| > Ouch! Some people have to pay for bandwidth you know -- a 900 kB
| > message on a public mailing list is *not* nice! Never mind privacy
| > concerns...
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| It's a mailbox that is mainly for spam...user changed address but I
| do keep it..
Maybe I missed your point here ...
I missed your original message too. Spam filters are great :-).
(apparently effective too!)
-D
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