Local mail issue. What did I do here?

[Neal Wilkinson]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 14:02 +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> I thought I had finally succeeded in getting my root mail into my
> regular inbox and then I trashed it. *rolls eyes* Anyway, I went back to
> Evolution because Thunderbird didn't seem to have the option to receive
> local mail and I set it up and received one e-mail to root. There were
> 79 more that showed up when I login to console though. So I "thought"
> I'd be smart and try to get those to whereever they needed to be so that
> Evolution would pick them up. I then type "pre" which looked like it
> sent them back to the spooler. Went back into KDE and voila I now get
> "mailbox unavailable" How can I undo whatever I did and get those other
> 79 messages? Thanks!
> 
> Neal
> 

I can receive root mail now but still have the prior 79 messages. What
about if I cp /var/spool/mail/root /var/spool/mail/neal will that
overwrite my mailbox or move the mail from root into that mailbox?