Re: [fetchmail-users] Missed messages

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 5/24/06, j.r...@gm... <j.r...@gm...> wrote:
> I am running fetchmail as a normal user on my Gentoo Linux box. The
> fetched messages are delivered to mailboxes by procmail. I am also using
> postfix.

Version numbers?  Contents of .fetchmailrc?

> fetchmail was logging to a file on my home directory, but the messages
> are delivered to mailboxes on a different partition.
>
> This night it happened that the partition where the fetchmail and the
> procmail log files are saved become full, although there were available
> space in the partition with the mailboxes.
>
> I have found out that some expected messages were not delivered to their
> mailboxes and it seems that I have lost them.

Anything in the postfix log?

> Is this a normal behaviour? Is there anything I can do to get those
> messages again?

Any vaguely recent version of fetchmail (and probably any version)
will only tell the remote server to delete the message once the local
server accepts it.  Of course, if you've bodged some local delivery
script then all bets are off.  Until we see your .fetchmailrc (and
really the logs) there's no way of knowing what's going on.

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