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Re: [cobalt-users] [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines



On Sunday 10 February 2002 07:40 pm, Achieve Website Design wrote:
> Has anybody come across this error message before, and if so what did you
> do?
>
> Feb  9 17:03:13 ns in.qpopper[11586]: simonhaden at 159.134.162.142
> (159.134.162.142): -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines (envelopes)
> in /var/spool/mail/simonhaden; change recognition mode or check for
> corrupted mail drop.
>
/var/spool/mail/simonhaden (home/spool/mail/simonhaden) file is corrupted.?

[ ** try this at your own risk, it it what I would do on my server **]
cd home/spool/mail/
stop inetd /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop
cp simonhaden anything.
touch  simonhaden   [make him a new one  [check permissions]
restart inetd etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start
take a look for a mangled header (From).
Maybe you can guess what it should be by looking at the others fix it.
stop inetd etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop
cat  anything (the backup file)  >> /var/spool/mail/simonhaden
restart inetd. etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start
rm anything

--
Gerald Waugh