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Subject: Crashed mailfile
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Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 04:36:49 EST
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        Hi,
anybody out there who knows how to rescue a mailfile with bad blocks. We have
a Super-Eagle that SI claims i leaking oil out on the disk. It happened now
again (got a new one a month ago) this christmas.
  My mail file now contains a couple of bad-blocks that make it unusable.
I found out that you can still access folders that no more show up in the
DIR/FOLDER listing and move mails from it. If youy remeber the names of all
your folders. The second problem is how to know which files (the one named
mail$xxxxxx.mai) that are really current and used in the new file. I have a
huge info-vax folder and have hundreds of files in the maildirectory.
(Time to clean up) So how to get rid of the files that the mail.mai have no
pointer to. We have VMS 4.4 here.

        Thanks in advance,

                Mats