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Re: How to restore my mail?



Kyle [20.Mär.2009 03:03]:

BUT when you booted your machine, your operating system automatically deleted the contents of /tmp. This is considered a security feature, as well as simply good housekeeping. IF you had $TMP or $tmpdir pointed elsewhere, such as ~/.tmp/ or something similar, then your mail will still be there, in a file beginning with "mutt-". IF your editor keeps draft files somewhere other than the same directory as the file being edited (i.e. someplace that wasn't in /tmp), you may be able to recover it that way too.

Don't forget /var/temp, althought that might just be a smylink to /tmp
(I am not that familiar with Debian).

Unless you specify a different temp-name, as Kyle said, try using
something like

        grep -r mutt- /{var,tmp,home}


JP

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