The messages were deleted from /var/spool/mail/user as far as I could tell
they were put nowhere else. I hadn't done enough fine tuning of the pine
configuration file for that. It's possible something verizon.net
installed on the home network may have got a little too hyperactive though
tooo. I allowed a verizon.net security package to be installed on another
computer which is also connected to the same gateway as the Linux box.
If that software detected a virus in the email stream it may have by
delayed reactioon gone and hunted those messages down and erased them.
I'm not going to be doing much downloading of large amounts of email for
awhile until I can get this sorted out.
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, ke6isf wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jude DaShiell wrote:
A little earlier today I lost something on the order of 15,000 messages
after having initially viewed them with a new build of pine.
Define "lost". Were they deleted from /var/spool/mail/$user entirely, or did
pine put them in a different directory?
This is, in short, not a Debian problem, but likely a Pine config problem as
I'm using Pine 4.64 as we speak, which reads directly from the spool. This
version is pulled in directly from braincells (do a google search for "pine
on debian").
-Dennis
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