mail disaster
Hi debian users,
I have a number of mail folders on my own server which I access via IMAP. I needed to quickly check a mail while my workstation was down so I executed mail -f name_of_folder. I would normally use mutt but I typed mail without thinking. I quit mail to go in with mutt but it was taking a long time to terminate so I hit CTRL+C and the message "invalid IOCTL for device" appeared on my terminal... then I realised I'd made a mistake, mail writes the file back when you quit and I had interrupted the write. I have lost a month's worth of email!
No I don't have a backup... No I don't want a lecture! Thanks anyway!
Does anyone have any ideas whether or not I can recover the tail of this file and how I might do so? I have unmounted the filesystem in the interim!
Many thanks for any help!
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Michael
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