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Subject: A .newsrc.eld validator? (Was: nnimap against Cyrus...)
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>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

[snip!]
> Sigh!  Unless someone knows something clever, I guess this means I
> have a *seriously* trashed .newsrc.eld file, and the only way out of
> this is to create a new one from scratch?

One utility I would have written if I had known how, would be a
.newsrc.eld validator.  Ie. a tool that would read in a .newsrc.eld
file and point at trouble spots, and help me edit it by hand to fix
those trouble spots.

Something like that would sure have been nice...:-/