The contents of my IMAP mailbox seem to have completely disappeared 
overnight, and all I've got in my inbox is a whole bunch of "About the 
[learnspam|learnham|spam] folder" and "Welcome to your new Mailbox" 
messages.

Trying Squirrelmail, I get the following:

ERROR

Error opening ../data/default_pref
Could not create initial preference file!
/mail/data/ should be writable by user apache
Please contact your system administrator and report this error.

Has anyone else lost mail ? I've dropped support@ a line as well.

Chris

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Chris King wrote:

> The contents of my IMAP mailbox seem to have completely disappeared
> overnight, and all I've got in my inbox is a whole bunch of "About the
> [learnspam|learnham|spam] folder" and "Welcome to your new Mailbox"
> messages.
> 
> Trying Squirrelmail, I get the following:
> 
> ERROR
> 
> Error opening ../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> /mail/data/ should be writable by user apache
> Please contact your system administrator and report this error.
> 
> Has anyone else lost mail ? I've dropped support@ a line as well.

Yes, and I'm getting loads 'New mail folder' messages, multiple times for
all mailboxes.

I've mailed support, but it's early yet,and IRC is quiet.

fruit

Chris King wrote:
> The contents of my IMAP mailbox seem to have completely disappeared 
> overnight, and all I've got in my inbox is a whole bunch of "About the 
> [learnspam|learnham|spam] folder" and "Welcome to your new Mailbox" 
> messages.
> 
> Trying Squirrelmail, I get the following:
> 
> ERROR
> 
> Error opening ../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> /mail/data/ should be writable by user apache
> Please contact your system administrator and report this error.
> 
> Has anyone else lost mail ? I've dropped support@ a line as well.
> 
> Chris

I've just seen Adrian's posts about the power outages - and the missing 
e-mails have now re-appeared in my mailbox.

Chris

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Mail sent to news@ will bounce, change "news" to my first name to reply 
by e-mail.