Getting error "Mailbox has an invalid format"

Wed Apr 14 12:17:31 EDT 2004

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Rob Tanner wrote:

> What exactly are the things that the software checks to decide that the
> mailbox has an invalid format?  I've exhausted my ideas.

You should be able to move the cyrus.* files out of the way and run
reconstruct on the mailbox.  Those are the only things that affect
"mailbox format"

Of course, this threatens you to lose flags.

-Rob

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