Hi all,

I think I kinda screwed up with mutt, but can't figure out exactly
what happened. I had this forwarded mail out of which I wanted to
extract the original mail (which was an attachment) . So in the attachment view I said 
's' and
saved to a file which I then appended to a mail folder.

Fine. So I thought, why not do it in one step, so I tried to pipe the
attached (forwarded) mail to a folder through >>, but it said permission
denied. Then I did '| cat >> $folder' . Next thing I knew, my
mbox, where the mail in question was situated, was empty of mails.

I thought the folder I was piping *to* was in danger of being damaged
and so had made a copy of it just in case ... never thought the folder
I was copying *from* would be in danger. 
I've got (had:-() some important mails in there and so if anybody has
come across this gotcha before, please help.

-Gaurav

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