[14185] in Athena Bugs
unexpected inbox deletion in TechMail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara L. Ives )
Mon Feb 12 11:07:29 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: blives@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 11:02:35
From: blives@MIT.EDU (Barbara L. Ives )
On Friday, I lost the entire contents of my inbox (about 190
messages), when I tried to respond "yes" to a query about
incorporating an old raw-mail file. I called the help-line, and
was told that unless I'd specifically deleted the stuff from DOS,
it couldn't disappear. (I know I hadn't done that.) I am pretty
sure that I followed the usual prompts to incorporate the raw-mail
file; it's the first time I've lost the existing messages. Today
there was a "Bad Header" message in my box with the following text:
?? ~?? BAD HEADER.
[TechMail]
Inbox=C:\NET\mit\inbox.mdf
RefileTarg=not_found
outbox=C:\NET\MIT\outbox.mdf
Draftbox=C:\NET\MIT\savebox.mfd
Mailbox=C:\NET\MIT\inbox.mdf
[Version Server / Test Tracker]
error report countdown
--Is that informative? Do you have any ideas of other places I
might look for my vanished messages, or are they just plain lost?
Thanks --
Barbara Ives
blives@mit.edu
