* Joe Zien (jozien@cybercomm.net) [020401 13:41]:
I was on vacation from Mar 11 to Mar 29 and for some reason my ISP mail server did not send me any mail for that period. Is there any way I can retrieve all messages from "suse-linux-e" mailing list for that period?
Yes. This is breifly explained in the help (suse-linux-e-help@suse.com) but it doesn't seem to be widely used so I'll give some examples of how to do it. First, figure out which message numbers you need. The message number is located in the envelope from on the mail sent to you from the list: For example, in the original message from you the envelope looks like From suse-linux-e-return-96034-ckm=suse.com@suse.com Mon Apr 1 13:41:56 2002 (Since these are VERP envelopes every subscriber gets a unique one...yours will have something like jozien=cybercomm.net instead of ckm=suse.com). '96034' is the message number. March 11 started at 93400 and March 29 ended at 95699 so you'd send an email to suse-linux-e-index.93400_96034@suse.com This will give you an index of authors and subjects. If you think the thread started by message 95000 sounds interesting and want to read it, send and email to suse-linux-e-thread.95000@suse.com and it will be sent to you. If you want the whole mess just send an email to suse-linux-e-get.93400_95699@suse.com and all of the mail will be sent to you. The only annoying part is getting the message numbers but they're easy enough to find in procmail or mail logs (I got the above numbers out of my procmail log). -- -ckm