Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous
* Eric Brunson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990616 08:01]: > > I've been using mutt for almost 2 years and I have *never* had it > delete anything I didn't tell it to. Just to add my 0.02 euro's: I just started to use mutt I guess for 2-3 weeks now and it's been more than a breeze to set-up and use and

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous
>I've been using mutt for almost 2 years and I have *never* had it >delete anything I didn't tell it to. > >I suggest you look for the problem in one of 2 places: >a) fetchmail and your invocation of it >b) somewhere between the keyboard and your chair > >Sorry for your loss, but your "bug report"

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I've been using mutt for almost 2 years and I have *never* had it delete anything I didn't tell it to. I suggest you look for the problem in one of 2 places: a) fetchmail and your invocation of it b) somewhere between the keyboard and your chair Sorry for your loss, but your "bug report" was le

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-11 Thread Anonymous
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

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-11 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
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Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-11 Thread Anonymous
>(Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing: The file >/var/spool/mail/ 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

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-10 Thread Anonymous
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: Wedne

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-10 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-06-09 23:52:54 -0500, Josh Hildebrand wrote: > Sounds like a fetchmail bug to me.. Well, if he did the fetchmail -F against localhost, this would explain the problem. ;)

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-09 Thread Thomas Roessler
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,

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-09 Thread Josh Hildebrand
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? >

Re: mutt deleting inbox and other folders

1999-06-09 Thread Brandon Long
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 lo