From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 6: 2:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B9D37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA9D43F75 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <200302061402200010087ffte>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:02:20 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16E2J79009970; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:02:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16E2HDN009967; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:02:17 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Willie Viljoen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering deleted mail from a mailbox References: <200302042259.07319.will@unfoldings.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Feb 2003 09:02:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200302042259.07319.will@unfoldings.net> Message-ID: <44k7gdo6c6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willie Viljoen writes: > This is a shot in the dark, but I'll try it anyway. Mail has been > (mysteriously) deleted from a mailbox in /var/mail. rm -W does not help. > Does anyone know of any method (third party software included) that can be > used to attempt to recover the mail from the file system? It could depend on exactly how the mail managed to disappear, but in general it's pretty unlikely. Especially in a busy mail directory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message