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List:       c-client
Subject:    Re: Recovery options for a corrupt mbx format folder
From:       Guy Dawson <guy () crossflight ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-09-19 17:49:50
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Guy Dawson wrote:

> I think I might have to get my programming head on.

I've written a program and have recovered all the messages. One of
them appears to have been split in two though!

The program uses the regex/regcomp expression matching function on UNIX
to go through the mbx format file line by line.

Each time it finds a message header of the form

11-Sep-2001 15:31:05 +0100,2476;000000000000-0001c0f1

it outputs a couple of blank lines and then a line in the form

>From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Sep 19 06:38:46 2001

followed by the email message. It continues to do this until all of the
file has been read.

A little editing to remove the odd spurious ^M character and the
result is a UNIX format mail file. This can then be converted back
into mbx format using mbxcvt.

If anyone would like a copy of the program source please email
be direct...

Guy
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Guy Dawson                    I.T. Manager              Crossflight Ltd
guy@crossflight.co.uk         07973  797819                01753 776104


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