Lule George William (Mr) I should have warned you about SuSE 7.2 but thats another story. Just where are your 'backups' anyway if I may ask? If indeed those mail files were 'temporarlily lost' you must have probably zeroed them out by now...
Backups, backups, always keep backups... I can't stress it louder enough. Basic methods: Quick-Restore, dump, tar, cpio etc... Sekidde. "Mark Tinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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. > >This could be a far-fetch, but please update your file system layout (with >the 'fileutils' utilities) and then run 'locate' with the user's username as >an argument. If it's somewhere on the system, it will show up. > >> >>> 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> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> This service is hosted on the Infocom network >>> http://www.infocom.co.ug >>> >>> >> >> ************************************************************************ >> Lule George William (Mr) >> Network and Systems Administrator >> Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi >> P.O. Box 5498 Kampala >> Uganda >> >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug > >Regards, > >Mark Tinka >Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland > > > >--------------------------------------------- >This service is hosted on the Infocom network >http://www.infocom.co.ug > __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
