fetchmail (or maybe exim) eats messages

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

A friend accidently messed with his mail spool file, ie
         /var/spool/mail/bill
resulting in the ownership of the file changing to root.

When he tried to do fetchmail, it happily fetched 40 messages, but
when he tried to look at them, they weren't there.  Presumably this is
because of the ownership thing, but there was no error message, and
the messages have simply vanished!

Are these messages lost forever?

Cheers,

Mark.


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