Re: [fetchmail-users] Missed messages

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> 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?

Rob, could you change the fetchmail-users info page to point users to
<http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>?

>> 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?

As long as procmail is installed, the first recommendation is to check
*ALL* places that procmail can theoretically deliver to, including the
$ORGMAIL and $DEFAULT places (whatever they are on the given Gentoo
system).

procmail is notorious for "losing" mail (actually filing it into the
wrong folder) in even slightly adverse conditions.

> 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.

More importantly, /etc/procmailrc, $HOME/.procmailrc and procmail logs.

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Matthias Andree