Root mail account is dying

[A. Rick Anderson]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Whenever I attempt to access mail from root, it pauses, then dies with 
>> the following error message.
..
>> fseek: Invalid argument
>> panic: temporary file seek
>> Aborted
>> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> 
> Perhaps /var/spool/mail/root lives on one of the bad disk blocks that 
> SMART is complaining about?
> 
> Can you copy /var/spool/mail/root to another file and then open it with 
> "Mail -f filename"?

Tried moving it to /root/mail and then opened it with the -f command.  I 
got the exact same error.  However, since I had "moved" the mail file, 
that effectively meant that the original file under /var/spool/mail was 
now gone.

Running a simple mail gave me the expected "no mail" message, but exited 
gracefully.  I am assuming the mail file was corrupted somehow.

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A. Rick Anderson