Hi debian users,

I have a number of mail folders on my own server which I access via IMAP. I 
needed to quickly check a mail while my workstation was down so I executed mail 
-f name_of_folder.  I would normally use mutt but I typed mail without 
thinking. I quit mail to go in with mutt but it was taking a long time to 
terminate so I hit CTRL+C and the message "invalid IOCTL for device" appeared 
on my terminal... then I realised I'd made a mistake, mail writes the file back 
when you quit and I had interrupted the write. I have lost a month's worth of 
email!
No I don't have a backup... No I don't want a lecture! Thanks anyway!

Does anyone have any ideas  whether or not I can recover the tail of this file 
and how I might do so? I have unmounted the filesystem in the interim!

Many thanks for any help!
--
Michael

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