> 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
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