From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13878 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to recover a corrupted mail archive folder Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:26:20 -0400 Message-ID: <44zl1mkk1f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <85634ctxzq.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273018839 16213 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 00:20:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:20:39 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 02:20:39 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9SLp-0002nY-F7 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:20:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9SGD-0000cS-Py for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:14:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:26:22 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NkxYsPm0XVz5tdi0fAfAgdHRiSM= Original-Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.78.145 Original-X-Trace: sv3-JBsu3UGXVzopXfJB0+DTjNVWuaMCyW/F4IJikmbJAFCRF9fC/wyg4ANWoRXRTmb60m4wEEHbyHioG5h!ZPKZP3cSOdvhoRF6X4yxaMddaBXFPqzTsHI5vlopRAkD/fuc9oXlLDMTS5fOIidfwxVPg4Yjomwn!Ehoascr/XA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84209 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13878 Archived-At: Pascal Quesseveur writes: > One of my mail archives has been corrupted. When accessing the folder > by gnus some texts are wrong and there are some messages which are not > in the summary. I don't know the reason but when I look at the file > there are some extra stuff in it. I get no backup of this file. Is > there a mean to get the folder already accessible from gnus ? I think > i can remove by hand some extra lines from the file (not too many > messages) but how can I deal with nov file? *First* make a copy of the archive so your further attempts don't get you into further trouble. The nov file can be regenerated. It sounds like this archive is using the nnfolder backend, in which case it's a standard Unix mailbox ("mbox") and can probably be edited with the standard "mail" command on your system. If you're using Windows, you may need to go to a bit more work to find something to edit the file with, but doing it by hand as you suggest is certainly possible (and may be necessary if the file is badly broken).