Hi!
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 03:15:10PM -0400, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> Meanwhile, your statement that your inbox (/var/spool/mail/zen) was
> set to 0 bytes sounds a whole lot like your mail was moved to another
> box (=mbox, =received, whatever) after you either were never asked if
> you wanted to move it or you inadvertently answered in the
> affimrative. It's probably too late to go back and check now, but
> maybe not; I'd love to hear that you've found it one day :-)
Now when you talk about it, I remember two more programs with
embedded mail client stealing the mail away from the mbox:
netscape (to ~/nsmail) and applixware. And what does kmail do?
> If for no other reason than that I hate to see someone suffer, I say
> you ought to give mutt another try. Put a couple of shell scripts in
> place to protect your $MAIL box if you want to; it would be a piece of
> cake to make that a standard part of how you call mutt. And then, let
> us know in copious detail if anything ever happens again :-)
I second that.
I never lost mail because of mutt, even using development versions most
of the time.
Gero
