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From: Raymond Scholz <ray-2003@zonix.de>
Subject: Re: acidentally used total-expire
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:59:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <geg.8765l49zgw@mde1.zonix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usmo85yex.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>

· Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> wrote:

> Well, at least you had the chance to read them once, I accidentally
> deleted the (".*" Inbox) rule in my nnmail-split-methods some weeks ago
> and lost all mail which wasn't caught by preceding rules for about six
> weeks.

Usually unimportant stuff like mails from your new employer, new
girlfriend etc.

> (BTW: WIBNIG did at least warn, when it doesn't find a matching rule
> for incoming mails?)

This happened to me a few years ago (using nnfolder then) and all the
unmatched mail ended up in a folder called "bogus".  nnmail.el has
some code for this (?).

Cheers, Ray
-- 
Sigmentation fault, core dumped.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-11 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87wudogxe9.fsf@lux99.home>
     [not found] ` <u7k5offc1.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>
     [not found]   ` <87bruwip3t.fsf@lux99.home>
2003-08-11  9:36     ` Frank Schmitt
2003-08-11 11:59       ` Raymond Scholz [this message]
2003-08-14 21:32       ` Kai Großjohann

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