Corrupt MBOX

[Mike Jeays]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:18 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> Derek Ragona wrote:
> 
> > It may be corrupted by spam.  This happens when SPAM has bad headers.  This 
> > effects all POP clients/servers.
> > 
> >          -Derek
> 
> OK, is there any easy repair process that I can use to remedy the
> situation? Second, why isn't the mail corrupted on the mail server that
> I am getting this mail from? If it corrupts my mbox, then why not theirs?
> 
> 

I would try splitting into roughly halves, and loading them into pine.
Keep splitting the bad half each time until the problem is narrowed
down.  Not all that easy, but it should help you recover almost all the
messages.