Re: unable to acces Inbox

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris hal-pc org>]

Aaargh!  The action I took (described below) appears to have  
overwritten the old /var/mail/rlh file without asking permission!  This  
should NOT happen; Balsa should have APPENDED to the file!

RLH


On 07/23/04 11:17:54, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I'm running Debian "unstable" with the Gnome desktop.  I just  
> executed "aptitude dist-upgrade", which leaves me running balsa  
> 2.0.17.
>
> In the process of the upgrade, the Inbox was re-set to /var/spool/ 
> mail/rlh/ ; before the upgrade, the Inbox was /var/mail/rlh/ .
>
> By right-clicking on "Inbox" and selecting properties, I opened the  
> "Mailbox configurator" dialogue box, changed the path, and clicked  
> the UPGRADE button.  But the roughly 250 messages (all of which have  
> been read) no longer are displayed in the Inbox.  How can I access  
> these messages?
>
> RLH