On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 14:02 +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > I thought I had finally succeeded in getting my root mail into my > regular inbox and then I trashed it. *rolls eyes* Anyway, I went back to > Evolution because Thunderbird didn't seem to have the option to receive > local mail and I set it up and received one e-mail to root. There were > 79 more that showed up when I login to console though. So I "thought" > I'd be smart and try to get those to whereever they needed to be so that > Evolution would pick them up. I then type "pre" which looked like it > sent them back to the spooler. Went back into KDE and voila I now get > "mailbox unavailable" How can I undo whatever I did and get those other > 79 messages? Thanks! > > Neal > I can receive root mail now but still have the prior 79 messages. What about if I cp /var/spool/mail/root /var/spool/mail/neal will that overwrite my mailbox or move the mail from root into that mailbox?
