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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 10 February 2002 08:59 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> 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 is 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 in anything 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)  >> simonhaden
> restart inetd. /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start
> rm anything

Corrected typos.
--
Gerald Waugh