Subject: Re: Is there a way to UNDELETE messages in PINE

From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 22 Apr 1996 13:44:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] (Salim Andraos) writes:
>	Is there any way to undelete mail in Pine or in my /mail directory.  
>I'm not talking about simply DELETED marked messages, and simply hitting 
>the 'U' key to UNDELETE.  The question is would I be able to undelete messages 
>after I deleted them, expunged them, quit pine, and logged off.
>	I do not use http, www, or anything the like.  I have the InterNet 
>through a service provider (plain white text on black background) running 
>on a 286 DOS machine :(

I assume you use PC-Pine on the 286.  You can use a disk utility app
(such as Norton Util.) to unerase/recover the files as long as they
are still recoverable.  This is because you have the mails on your
PC disk and you have full control of them.

If, however, you use your ISP's disk to store the mails (using Unix
Pine on their machine), and you deleted the mails, I think your 
chance of recovering the deleted mails is very poor.

In either case, Pine does not offer any help.  You have to use other 
apps to do the recovery.

Jie
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From: [email-masked] (Salim Andraos)
Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:47:24 GMT

I would appreciate any hints, comments, or tips that would help 
me out.

P.S.: I'm not really looking forward to the Windows 95/ Pentium upgrade 
and all it's hassles...
P.P.S.: ...so don't laugh at a machine that gives only ONE error message: 
*** Bad command or filename ***

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 18:15:28 +0100 (BST)

No, there is usually no way to undelete messages once they have been
expunged.

(Not QUITE true: if they were stored on a PC's local hard disk AND you
hadn't saved too much else to the drive since you MIGHT be able to get
them back with some disk scavenging program like Norton Utilities.
However if your messages were stored on a UNIX machine's disks then the
answer is "No".)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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