Re: MIX conversion woes

Mabry Tyson wrote:
> What gets me is that I can't understand what is wrong (if anything) 
> with the mix formats that I created.   They were created and appended 
> by mailutil (2007e) from intermediate files.  I can believe the 
> intermediate files might have something wrong, but still I'd expect 
> mailutil to create a consistent mix folder.
I don't understand what you mean by intermediate files? Whatever that 
means I don't know but I can say that in the past, with earlier versions 
of uw-imap, when I had a bizarre problem with mix files that could not 
be resolved by the use of mixrbld and/or mixdfix as appropriate I would 
use mailutil to convert my mix folder back to a mbox format folder. I 
would then convert, using mixcvt, this mbox version of my folder back to 
a mix format folder. This worked for me in cases where mixrbld couldn't 
fix my problem. Again, these things seemed to happen with earlier 
version of uw-imap and of course, you mileage may vary. One other 
advantage of going through the procedure will be to create a mix folder 
broken into mix segments which will help with backups tremendously or at 
least I remember something to that effect.

David