[Users] POP Mails written to local Nirvana?

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Hi Frank,

On 07-04-2012 09:25, Frank Busse wrote:
> My local ./Mail folder is a symlink to a folder on an NFS mount. This
> morning, the server was temporarily unavailable during boot, 
> resulting
> in the ./Mail folder being a "dead link".
>
> However, after calling one of my POP providers, Claws read (and
> deleted) the current eMails from the server, writing them to... er
> yes, where exactly do you imagine, might Claws have written the
> eMails?
>
> Until now, I have no idea. I just know that Claws did not complain
> about anything, during "writing".
If you unmount the NFS share and the list the contents of the now 
unmounted share your emails will be available again.

The reason for this is that a mount to a folder name will shield the 
previous data in the file system.

Michael.