Re: ALL my email vanished

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished
> > > without a trace.  Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing.
> > > Everyone else's email in intact.
> > > 
> > I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared.
> > I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik
> > vanished.
> 
> Have you looked in /var/mail? 
> 
> Although they aren't linked, both /var/spool/mail and /var/mail contain
> the mail here.

On my system, they are linked:

hendrik@topoi:~$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 Jun 22 14:19 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
hendrik@topoi:~$