積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: > What if my house burned down and I must start from scratch? > Mention how to continue if those files are lost.
You have two choices. 1. Restore the files from your backups. You do take regular backups, right? You know the saying "Files you don't have backed up are files you don't want to keep"? 2. Reconfigure getmail and let it retrieve all your old mail again. This will recreate your oldmail files. > I assume if one really wanted to get rid of them, That's a nonsensical statement. If you are running getmail and want to continue running getmail, you *DON'T* want to get rid of them. And there is no reason, and definitely no need, to screw with them. > a safe way would be > 0. Disconnect the upstream mail server from the internet so no new mail > is coming in. > 1. get all your mail upstream -> downsteam. Now all is deleted from > upstream. > 2. Now delete the oldmail files. > 3. Now reconnect the server. Sorry, but you seem to have completely misunderstood how this works. That wouldn't do what you think it would - not even close. Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Cazabon <charl...@pyropus.ca> Software, consulting, and services available at http://pyropus.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
