PERL Programming - Damn strange problem

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Damn strange problem

Olly

2006-02-02, 3:35 pm

Hey all, I'm writing a perl script to fix corrupted sendmail mailboxes. Basically, the very first thing in a mailbox has to be the word From, otherwise users can't log in. From time to time bits of garbage get entered in to the start of the mailbox files so I've written a perl script to remove those line of garbage. The script work fine on my machine (debian) but when I stick it on my mail server (BSD) it throws a hissy fit, and instead of removing garbage it will sometimes work and sometimes wipe the entire mailbox file. It's kind of driving me nuts so any help would be really appreciated..

I've attached a copy of the script

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