Three days ago, I wrote a new filter for Thunderbird (my email program). It’s job was supposed to delete this annoying Spam variant.
Unfortunately, on my first live test, it managed to wipe out every single incomming email. Among the deleted was one from a friend; but it could of included yours too.
I know 6 emails were deleted. I cannot retrieve them. If you sent me an email recently, and I haven’t replied, please send it again. My apologies for the mess.
The filter was supposed to delete any mail with “http://uk.geocities.com/”. Why, you may ask? Because in one day, I received 26 (!!) messages of spam linking to subdirectories of that domain. That’s in addition to all the other spam from previous days.
Why the filter also wiped out legit mail is unknown.