[X-Servers] Power Outage and Mail Box Corruption

[Chris W]

Bob,

Did you resolve this issue?

In response to your first question, I for one am still reading the  
list, but I do not have good answers for you.

I presume that you booted into single user mode and did an fsck on  
this server before bringing it back online, which is my one piece of  
advise.

Chris W.

On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Bob Bergey wrote:

> I'm not sure if this list is still active or not -- haven't seen  
> any posts since early November. Anyone here?!! I'm desperate for  
> help, so thought I'd give it a try anyway ....
>
> My Xserve G5 running OS 10.3.9 experienced a power outage this  
> afternoon. I've had 100% up time since it went online in early  
> October 2005. (Adding an interruptible power supply is on my list  
> of things to do, but I didn't get to it yet, unfortunately.)
>
> Following the power outage this afternoon, the server restarted and  
> came right back online as it was set to do. However the one mailbox  
> in the mail system apparently was corrupted somehow, and now I get  
> the following error when I try to check mail:
>
>   POP server said: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Could not read message file
>
> I tried deleting the mailbox and recreating it, but that didn't  
> seem to make any difference -- I still get the same error -- and  
> the same number of messages are still there, too -- does that mean  
> my deletion attempt didn't work? I'm not worried too much about  
> losing mail already in the box (about 70 messages, I think), as I  
> wouldn't have received much important mail today on a Saturday.  
> However I need to have it working by Monday at the latest,  
> preferably sooner.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob
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