Re: Serious Error

[Kent Nyberg <blurkis saftpiraten network>]

You probably did as i did once.
If you enter /home/user/mail as a name for a mailbox when that is 
a directory containing ALL your mailboxes, then it will be deleted when you
delete it.
Kind of logical... but stupid.




Den 2001.01.15 10:54:03 +0100 skrev Keith Nasman:
> I just setup postfix on my machine to handle inbound mail, routing with
> procmail to my home directory. I also just signed up for this list with
> this local account and when I was creating a balsa-list mailbox in
> /home/keith/mail I didn't specify the destination file of 'balsa-list'.
> Balsa (1.0.1) gave me an error and when I went into the properties to
> change it it wouldn't let me change it (I guess because the file didn't
> exist). I then went to my terminal window to touch the new file and there
> was no mail directory. Balsa deleted my whole mail directory! I dropped
> to
> single user mode and ran e2fsck on the partition but it didn't find any
> errors.
> 
> This sucks. Has anyone else had any problem like this?
> 
> Keith
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