Sounds like a fetchmail bug to me..
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:32:44PM -0700, Brandon Long wrote:
> On 06/10/99 Zenaan Harkness uttered the following other thing:
> > Has anoyone experienced their /var/spool/mail/myusername being deleted?
> >
> > What about having a random mail folder deleted?
> >
> > I have now experienced this one to many times, and being a manager, this is
> > ridiculous. I have now lost my inbox for the second time, and this time I
> > had emails in there that I hadn't yet dealt with, and were older than my
> > last fetchmail -F (flush).
> >
> > I just ran "dpkg --purge mutt" as root, and I am now going to select
> > another email reader.
> >
> > If you are interested, it was the standard mutt install from Debian
> > GNU/Linux 2.1 (Slink).
> >
> > I was starting to get somewhat fond of mutt, but when this occurs,
> > regardless of the reason, it is simply unacceptable. I rely on email too
> > much for communication, both inside and outside the company, and for my
> > 'import to do' list.
>
> Thank you for your important and useful bug report. Could you please
> tell us what you did to cause this to happen?
>
> I wish you good luck with Microsoft email software.
>
> Brandon
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