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From: deon@aim1.UUCP (Deon Botha)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Folder corrupted error
Message-ID: <4@aim1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 91 20:30:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.194126.17428@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Aztec Information Management
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cubfan@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Rick Casares) writes:

>Can anyone here verify if the explanantion below is true.
>>>Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
>>    This often happens to me.  It means that you have received a mail message
>>with some kind of header that Elm can't figure out.  It seems to have trouble
>>with headers of messages that come back because they can't be delivered.  I
>>haven't bothered to figure out whether the problem is with Elm, or with the
>>machine that bounces the mail back.  Anyway, use the regular Unix mail program
>>to read your mail, and get rid of the message that is confusing Elm.

We had the same problem on SCO Unix 3.2v2 caused by the mail/mailx utility
inserting 4 Ctrl-A's to seperate mail items in the user's folder. We are 
currently using a "tr" script to strip all Ctrl-A's out. This is not a 
good solution as new mail arriving causes new "corruption"; fortunately 
elm just exits...etc.

We intend to modify the nn sources to sort this out, unless a fix is posted....
We are using SCO's mmdf environment for mail delivery and routing after 
recently switching from the now de-func Intel Unix 3.2.2. It seemed like
les trouble to plough through the 6-odd config files than to convince
SCO fussy security that smail3.1 is capable of taking over.