On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:27:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>>Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > >>>without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > > >>>Everyone else's email in intact. > > >>> > > >>I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared. > > >>I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik > > >>vanished. > > > > > >Have you looked in /var/mail? > > > > > >Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain > > >the mail here. > > > > Also did you fire up any software that copied it into a > > /home/<user>/mail or /home/<user>/Mail or /home/<user>/Maildir directory? > > > > (Like when you exit mutt -- would you like to move your messages to ____?) > > That's the first place I looked. That's where I found all the mail from > before November, but not the November mail. Thank god I accidentally > let it move my messages to mbox by accident at the start of November, > or I might have lost a lot more.
That other problem you mentioned in your original post makes me think there might be a problem with the filesystem/harddisk -- in which case those files could be lost forever, unless you have a recent backup... Have you run a filesystem check? Any other files missing? Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
