sukrit rearranged electrons thusly:
> just trying out xemacs i was playing around with its mail feature and now
> all my mail from the inbox is lost...
If you used vm (the xemacs mailer) then rmail is in (more or less) mbox format.
So do
$ mutt -f /home/sukrit/RMAIL
in mutt, select all the messages by pressing T .
Then, press ; to apply the operation to all tagged mails, then s (save). Save
to /var/spool/mail/sukrit
voila
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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