[X Newbies] Corrupt message in Mail in-box kills app

[David Crandon]

>> is there any way to rebuild the In box?

Uhh, yeah. Go to Mailbox in the menu bar and choose "rebuild mailbox".

David Crandon


On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 07:52  AM, Steve St-Laurent wrote:

>
> My Mail in-box is about 90 Mb in size. Today I received a message that 
> appears to have corrupted the mailbox. Now I can't even open the 
> in-box window without crashing. I know the offending file and would 
> love to delete it. [Curses again on HTML/rich-text email! Who cares 
> what color you want your sig in?]
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix the mailbox. I tried opening it in 
> BBEdit Lite but it grabs only a part of the file. Would the full 
> version do an better?
>
> Dear entomologist Cricket, is there any way to rebuild the In box? 
> Seems not to be the case but would be thrilled to be wrong. All advice 
> welcome. Private replies hopeless, of course, because the In-box 
> window crashes Mail and sometimes locks up the whole computer - yes, 
> even in OSX 10.2.6. But files from this list are filed elsewhere. TIA
>
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