> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:53:05 -0500 > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:27 +0100, Paul Leyland wrote: > > I'm still smarting over losing 11 days of mail through a combination of > > incompetence and unfamiliarity with an email client. When on vacation > > a few weeks ago I didn't have proper net access and was reduced to using > > a web-mail client to read my accumulated mail. I tried to mark and > > delete all the spam but succeeded in marking and deleting everything. > > There was no undelete function 8-(
> Fetchmail+an_MTA+IMAP+Apache+a_webmail_app lets you have control. I'm sure it does. Pray tell me how to persuade an internet cafe located in a small fishing port in one of the more remote parts of the country to install it for me on a system that normally runs XP and IE. I had a laptop with me, but no phoneline and no cellphone coverage. Rural Cornwall is a rather remote part of the country! > > An urgent mail to my ISP's helldesk revealed that they considered a RAID > > array adequate backup. They were concerned only about hardware > > reliability and (apparently) don't take any precautions against > > software-inflicted data corruption. > Time to get a new ISP! I've been giving serious thought to that. This is now getting rather off-topic, so I'll try to draw this thread to a close now. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution