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Well, I’ve just learnt a very important lesson. I was in my webmail the other day (which I never really use), and somehow I managed to delete my entire inbox. Yes, all my emails in my inbox are now gone!!

I’ve been hosting my own mail server for the past couple of year, and its been great. It’s gone through many changes from server software, to the biggest being a move from Windows Server 2003 to Ubuntu Server, and I managed to keep all my emails over that time.

Basically, what happened was I was in webmail and in the trash directory, and when to empty it, when I think it didn’t load properly and I was still in the inbox, and telling it to empty the trash, actually emptied the inbox. I’m not sure how that happened, but it did.

I’ve tried a few ways to reclaim the data, but so far to no avail. I’m going to continue trying so if anyone know how to recover data on a ext3 drive, do let me know. I’m currently trying a program called ext3grep, but it’s pretty confusing. I’m just hoping that I can get some or all of the data back, but worst case, I’ve got a clean inbox to start fresh again.

Oh, and it was only my inbox that was emptied. All other directories are still there. Now I just need to figure out a backup solution so if this happens again, I can easily recover my data.

As some of you may know, Microsoft have released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 to the public. I downloaded it the other day and gave it a bit of a test run, as this a primarily a developer release for web developers to ensure that their sites will work. As a primary browser for every days tasks, I’d advise you to stay away from it. There are a lot of sites that will break. I’m guessing the main cause of this is that IE8 is a standards compliant browser (finally!!), and that a lot of that hacks that are used to get sites to look right in previous version of IE are causing these issues.

I’ve since removed IE8b1 from my computer as it was conflicting with Outlook Today in Outlook 2007. All my calendar entries and task links had a permanent underline. This was quite annoying, and upon removing IE8b1, it’s all fine again. Hopefully this fix this in future versions, but for now, I’ll be sticking with IE7 via IE Tab in Firefox.