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Re: How to restore my mail?



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On Friday, March 20 at 12:03 PM, quoth W. Martin Borgert:
> On 2009-03-19 21:03, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> You *might* be able to restore it, *if* you use an alternate temp 
>> directory (i.e. if you set the $TMP environment variable, or the 
>> $tmpdir muttrc configuration setting, or maybe if your editor keeps 
>> draft files in a nonstandard place).
>
> Thanks. I have not set the TMP variable, so the draft file was 
> /tmp/mutt-<hostname>-<uid>-<pid>-<whatever> and has been deleted 
> on boot. Bad luck, I have now set 'tmpdir=~/.mutt/'.

Ouch. Yeah, that's rough, but that will help in the future.

> Btw, is there a variable to tell mutt not to delete mails from the 
> postponed mailbox on editing?

Not that I know of.

~Kyle
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