[PLUG] Unsaved E-mail: Recoverable? [YES, IT IS]

[Fred James]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Fred James wrote:
>
>   
>> Thank you for your replies ... as I thought, I have learned more than
>> helped ... sorry ... I suppose having the client (or anyone else if there
>> was more than one recipient) send you back a copy is out of the question
>> (rhetorical question)?
>>     
>
> Fred, Wes, et al.:
>
>    Here's another lesson: alpine stores copies of messages (either in whole
> or in part) in /tmp as pico.* (even when the silly pico editor is replaced
> with a more capable editor). I found a copy of that non-saved message as
> /tmp/pico.53391.bak, saved it to a text file, and will now mail it to myself
> for saving.
>
>    It occurred to me early this morning that I should look for it in /tmp and
> there it was.
>
> Rich
>   
Cool!