[SUMMARY] iMail crashing with bad mail post

[Chris Tangora]

Thanks to all who have responded to this.  I must say that the winner for
this question is Thomas Karns!  (ding ding ding ding).  His answer allowed
us to view the message and gave us great insight into the inner workings of
X.  We had gone through Terminal and done essentially the same thing, but
now we know how to do it using the GUI.  This is a great thing for anyone to
try, it is really interesting to see the email in this format.  But on that
note ...   Anybody know how to read the table of contents on there? seemed
to have alot of extra characters (viewing it with simpletext and TexEdit
(original name of program)).  I figured out to do a search on closing html
tag in order to separate the messages.  Anybody know of a better way?

Thanks again to all who replied.  I am definitely going to use some of the
suggestions listed for my email filtering/usage.

P.S. - Make sure you don't copy the mbox out of the folder otherwise you
need ROOT to get it back in.

Chris Tangora
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Karns [mailto:tomak223 at mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 2003, April, 23 02.58 p
To: X-Applications
Subject: Re: [X-Apps] iMail crashing with bad mail post


On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 07:51  AM, Chris Tangora wrote:

>   We have a problem of having one bad email in the iMail application.
> It is
> the first email on the top of the list, and it crashes the computer.
> We
> don't know why, but it does.  Is there any way to manually remove that
> email
> from the list so that we can at least open the email?

This could be tricky, but you should be able to fix it with Finder and
a text editor.  I used BBEdit lite but hopefully you can use TextEdit.
Go to:  /users/your user
name/Library/Mail/POP/tomak223 at mail.mac.com/INBOX.mbox

I used one of my accounts for an example.

Control click on INBOX.mbox and select "show package contents"

Control click on the file "mbox"

Select open with:  In my case there where no options listed so I
clicked other.  Choose a text editor.

No guarantee's here but you can try deleting all the content of the
problem message and save the file.

I do recommend that you make a backup copy of the mbox file before
editing.

Good Luck
Tom K.