An important MAIL file was destroyed today (wednesday) so I restored it
from a copy made on tuesday night.

Among the things stored in this file is your NEW MAIL COUNT. This means
that your count of new mail messages will no longer be in synch with your
actual mail message count. What you may get is a message at login saying
you have new mail, but you actually don't or it'll say you have 3 messages
when you only have one (for example).

To fix this problem, type READ/NEW while at the MAIL> prompt and ignore
any error messages you might get (such as "...no new mail..."). This
will reset the new mail count to its correct value.

If you made any changes today to your personal mail environment such as
forwarding,personal name, mail directory, etc. (Any of the things you can set
with a SET command), they will have been lost.

I don't know why the mail file got wiped out. It probably was a result of
the very disturbing system crashes that are happening with increasing frequency.

ds