This used to happen to me. Then I realised I was accidentally invoking mutt
as "rm /var/spool/mail/brendan; mutt". Since I stopped doing that, I've
never lost a single message.
HTH,
Brendan
----- Original Message -----
From: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 09 June, 1999 21:04
Subject: mutt deleting inbox and other folders
> 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.
>
> Zenaan.
>
>
>
