[fetchmail-users] Re: unsafe MDA procmail recommended by fetchmail

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Hello Thomas,

Am 2005-11-02 17:58:28, schrieb Thomas Wolff:

> I would not say this issue was a user error on my part (because it's 
> not properly documented), but it's not a serious issue as I said 
> before. Procmail handles an inaccessible system mailbox well (this is 
> documented); I was not able to check what would happen if /var/mail is 
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> completely inaccessible but I assume something reasonable should 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> happen too, so I withdraw my statement that procmail is an unsafe MDA.
> 
> User feedback and documentation should be improved, though, and maybe 
> this case of redirection should not be applied at all (or be configurable) 
> and rather a proper error indication returned instead.

So right, I am using fetchmail + procmail + courier-imap
and sometimes They are errors and messages are going into
/var/mail/<$USER> which are inaccessible.  Specialy if I
have more then 17.000 $USER.

I think, procmail should have an config option to stop
this behaviour and return an error instead.

It is not funny to walk through 17.000 Mailboxes to get
the "lost" messages back into the $USER mailboxes.

> Thanks and kind regards,
> Thomas Wolff

Greetings
Michelle

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