> > > On Wed May 21 16:04:51 2003, the user root was editing a > file named > > > main.cf on the machine... when it was saved for recovery. You can > > > recover... > > > > I think this email was automatically generated on my FreeBSD 4.7 > > system before postfix was installed. Since postfix > replaces sendmail > > and mailq with it's own versions, where do I track down and > purge this > > message? /var/mail is empty, and /root/mbox does not exist. > > Usually this means you dumped out of vi. I would start by > looking at vi and see how it generates these and see if there > is a way to reset the vi recovery system. >
I think 'vi -r' may be want you want.
