On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 at 11:34pm, I wrote: :I was happily using pine for email (I know, not totally "debian"), but :played with emacs, just to check it out. After _sending_ an email from :emacs, I gained directories - harmless enough. After _reading_ email in :emacs, my pine inbox, which had about 500 messages in it, is empty. :Where'd they go?
I'm afraid I seem to have lost the helpful reply, so can't give personal thanks to the person who suggested 'M-x unrmail' and 'cat unrmail_file >> /var/spool/mail/me' but it worked. As for locking the spool file, I simply went offline while I was messing with it! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

