Subject: lost all saved messages

From: rey osburnb <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:37:19 -0700 (PDT)

To whom it may require,
	At approx. 10:30PM, July 3rd I went to check for new mail. To my
surprise I found nothing. Not even saved messages. Some of which were
notes of important information I'll need right away. Please let me know if
I can retrieve any of those documents. Thanks.
			Rey 
			[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:58:14 -0400

> I can retrieve any of those documents. Thanks.

    Sad to say, your prospects are none too good.  When you say you
went to check for new mail, you did not say you were doing anything to
filter mail into separate incoming mail folders, so I will presume
the mail you were checking for was to have been in the default inbox,
whatever it is named on your system.  Although Pine uses this inbox, in
a manner of speaking it does not "own" it.  Probably some other process
messed up and wiped it out.  About all you can do is ask your site's
Help Desk or system administrator if regular backups are made of the
mail spool, and if so, could they restore whatever they can. 
Unfortuantely, I wouldn't be optimistic.  Sorry.

    Just as a suggestion for future consideration, I personally do not
think is it a good idea to leave already read mail in the inbox for
this very reason.  I always move important messages into some Pine
folder or other, which is part of my regular storage and a little less
likely to get hit by accidents like those to the mail spool.  (Others
may differ.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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