How do I restore my icarus inbox (or other mailbox)?
• Use the following command to select the copy of your inbox that you want to restore, and to restore it to a SEPARATE mail folder. (If you don’t restore it to a different folder, it will overwrite your current inbox, and you will lose all your newer email.) So, the command to restore your inbox on icarus is: dsmc restore -inactive -pick /var/mail/netid ~/mail/oldinbox • Make sure to replace netid with your own netid (for example, adabyron or jstude99). This will restore your inbox to a mail folder called oldinbox, which is viewable through pine or WebMail. (How do I use the dsmc -pick option? below explains how to use the -pick option.) • While you’re still logged in, you can use pine to open the restored inbox; enter the command: pine -f oldinbox Or you can use WebMail (the folder list is at the top right of the WebMail screen.) • Note that this will bring back a copy of your entire inbox; be sure to go through it and delete all the messages that you either already have or don’t need
