[pmmail-list] corrupted files crash program

[Dave Whiteman - NASA/GSFC]

All,

	Sadly I am considering switching to another email client due to the long delay in upgrades to PMMail2000. Does anyone know a way to migrate to 
Eudora for example or other Pop client? thx.

>Hi all,
>
>While attempting a search, and subsquently a re-indexing, in certain
>folders, PMMail/2 would crash, so I set out to discover what
>characterized the bad message which caused the crash and discovered
>several with hex FE bits only, or in header, which were the culprit.
>
>I used grep to find files containing single FE char, then went to bed
>and reviewed the results  in the morning before deleting, but I keep
>thinking there's a better way.
>
>I think the corruption was probably disk i/o rather than the
>application, though a look at the dates didn't reveal anything other
>than the files were all more than two years old.
>
>--Maynard
>
>
>
>


Dave

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