Guys, maybe there is another place they could be moved to. In 
the /home/username directory, there is only the mail directory and 
there I find sent-mails, saved-messages and neomail-trash. Nothing more.

> in addition check (in the users homedir) for an mbox file, or a 
Maildir 
> folder. mail can be moved to any one of these places.
> 
> - Martin -
> 
> On Monday 26 April 2004 10:11, joseph mpora wrote:
> > George,
> >
> > Check the user's home folder for a Mail or mail directory, I have 
had my
> > mails moved before from my /var/spool/ to the home folder
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > He must have popped them to a client. That is my wild guess.  Are 
u using
> > > POP or IMAP ?
> > >
> > > Fred
> > >
> > > Quoting Lule George William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > No such luck. It doesn't exist!
> > > >
> > > > > Use ls -al
> > > > > and check for the file under the 
name /var/spool/mail/.username
> > > > >
> > > > > On Apr 24, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Lule George William wrote:
> > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > > Something strange has just happened. A user has just lost 
all his
> > > > > > mails, over 32MB of them!!! When I 
check /var/spool/mail/username,
> > > > > > I find that only 12k is left. I am sure he didn't delete 
them
> > > > > > because
> > > >
> > > > he
> > > >
> > > > > > needs all of them, what do you think happened? Is there a 
chance of
> > > > > > retrieving any?
> > > > > > System: SuSE Linux 7.2, kernel 2.4.4-4GB, 40GB Hard disk 
and 512
> > > >
> > > > RAM.
> > > >
> > > > > > Neomail is the MUA.
> <snip>
> 
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Network and Systems Administrator
Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi
P.O. Box 5498 Kampala
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