Today I got interested in mucking about with emacs, it always facinated me and I thought I would mess about.
I logged into my web/mail server from work and prceeded to install emacs. I noticed that it had the ability to read my email which I thought would be very cool so I ran RMAIL. Before doing so I thought – eh, she’ll be right, I was wrong. It dragged all my email in my INBOX (I use IMAP thask to Dovecote) and dumped it into a file called RMAIL. In effect, it hossed my INBOX!!!!. Chnaging permisision, ownership and file name of this new RMAIL file didn’t help.
A few heart punding minutes later I realised my nightly backups will save me and I replaced the hosed INBOX with a backedup one.
Thank god for nightly back ups and scp.
I’m still interested in emacs.