On 1999-06-10 11:04:08 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Has anoyone experienced their /var/spool/mail/myusername being
> deleted?
Never ever.
Actually, /var/spool/mail is mode 775, root.mail, on Debian 2.1, so
unless your setup is screwed up, mutt is simply not able to remove
your mailfolder, due to lack of privileges.
The dotlocking program would have the necessary privileges, but it
doesn't even think about removing the file it is supposed to lock.
(Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing: The file
/var/spool/mail/<yourname> was deleted, it's not just that read
messages were moved to $HOME/mbox? Or have you mounted your mail
spool over NFS, with attribute caching switched on, and just lost a
couple of messages? What file system is your /var/spool/mail on?)
> What about having a random mail folder deleted?
Only empty ones, and only when you tell mutt to delete them.
> I have now experienced this one to many times
A report when you lost your inbox the first time would have been
nice. Best with instructions about your system and on how to
reproduce this, so we can try to fix the problem.
> 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).
If these mails were old, why not restore them from your last daily
back-up?
