{"id":309,"date":"2003-03-19T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=309"},"modified":"2003-03-19T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T17:13:00","slug":"ooops-what-have-i-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-03\/309-ooops-what-have-i-done","title":{"rendered":"Ooops, what have I done??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>And how can I fix it??<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My mail is stuck, and I can&#8217;t seem to unstick it. Or more likely, I <b>tried<\/b> to unstick it, and did something wrong by mistake.<\/p>\n<p><!--more only look here if you know how to fix mail systems!-->It&#8217;s a Linux-\/UNIX-based mail system. In the \/var\/mail directory, I see the &#8220;thatismymail&#8221; file which contains my messages (I&#8217;ve looked inside the file, and actually FTP&#8217;d it to my PC).<\/p>\n<p>There is also a &#8220;thatismymail.lock&#8221; file of some 10 bytes, and a 0-byte &#8220;.thatismymail.pop&#8221; file in that directory. On previous occasions when my mail got stuck due to a broken connection between my PC mail client and the server, I just deleted the &#8220;.thatismymail.pop&#8221; file and everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can&#8217;t get either my mail client to connect, nor can I get pine to respond.<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you have any advice or suggestions for me to try to fix this??<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(I have no problem deleting the &#8220;thatismymail&#8221; file if I have to since I&#8217;ve extracted anything important from it already.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And how can I fix it?? My mail is stuck, and I can&#8217;t seem to unstick it. Or more likely, I tried to unstick it, and did something wrong by mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}