steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton) (10/28/87)
Reply-To: Just a warning - our machine crashed while I was in the middle of running rmail. ALL my mail, old and new got lost! RMAIL was empty except for the "if you are reading this, the file is empty" message, RMAIL~ was zero length, and my mail file in /usr/spool (which had contained 14 new messages) was also empty. BE WARNED! Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl
nate@cpocd2.UUCP (Nathan Hess) (10/29/87)
In article <98@piring.cwi.nl> Steven Pemberton writes: >Just a warning - our machine crashed while I was in the middle of >running rmail. ALL my mail, old and new got lost! RMAIL was empty >except for the "if you are reading this, the file is empty" message, >RMAIL~ was zero length, and my mail file in /usr/spool (which had >contained 14 new messages) was also empty. BE WARNED! I quote here a portion of the GNU Emacs manual, the section on Inboxes in the RMAIL chapter. This might contain the answer to your lost mail dilemma: Copying mail from an inbox in the system's mailer directory actually puts it in an intermediate file `~/.newmail'. This is because the interlocking is done by a C program that copies to another file. `~/.newmail' is deleted after mail merging is successful. If there is a crash at the wrong time, this file will continue to exist and will be used as an inbox the next time you get new mail. Hope this helps... --woodstock -- "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?" ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|pur-ee|qantel|amd}!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!nate <domainish> : nate@cpocd2.intel.com ATT : (602) 961-2037
ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA.UUCP (10/30/87)
> From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton) > Date: 28 Oct 87 11:53:23 GMT > > Just a warning - our machine crashed while I was in the middle of > running rmail. ALL my mail, old and new got lost! You might try putting (auto-save-mode 1) in your rmail-mode-hook to ensure that your rmail-file-name file is autosaved. -- Ashwin Ram -- ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,linus,seismo}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs
interran@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (John Interrante) (10/30/87)
In article <98@piring.cwi.nl> Steven Pemberton writes: >Just a warning - our machine crashed while I was in the middle of >running rmail. ALL my mail, old and new got lost! I've also lost all of my new mail when my filesystem was full. That was GNU Emacs 18.47 on a Sun 3. rmail couldn't move the new mail into my directory, but it went ahead and deleted the new mail from my system mailbox. John Interrante / interran@shasta.stanford.edu / {decwrl,uunet}!shasta!interran