On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Fred James wrote: > > > Thank you for your replies ... as I thought, I have learned more than > > helped ... sorry ... I suppose having the client (or anyone else if there > > was more than one recipient) send you back a copy is out of the question > > (rhetorical question)? > > Fred, Wes, et al.: > > Here's another lesson: alpine stores copies of messages (either in whole > or in part) in /tmp as pico.* (even when the silly pico editor is replaced > with a more capable editor). I found a copy of that non-saved message as > /tmp/pico.53391.bak, saved it to a text file, and will now mail it to > myself > for saving. > > It occurred to me early this morning that I should look for it in /tmp > and > there it was. > > Rich > for that matter, you could always have just searched your entire hard drive. grep -ri [some key word from the email] / -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
