{"id":161,"date":"2009-10-13T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depannone.com\/wordpress\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-10-13T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T03:44:42","slug":"a-lesson-learnt-dont-mess-about-with-stuff-on-your-mail-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"A lesson learnt, don&#8217;t mess about with stuff on your mail server."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got interested in mucking about with emacs, it always facinated me and I thought I would mess about.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; eh, she&#8217;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&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>A few heart punding minutes later I realised my nightly backups will save me and I replaced the hosed INBOX with a backedup one. <\/p>\n<p>Thank god for nightly back ups and scp.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still interested in emacs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A lesson learnt, don&#8217;t mess about with stuff on your mail server.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek_stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}