Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail error "requires envelope option"

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

[ Sent to the list so others know what happened ]

On 8/27/07, Anne Wilson <can...@go...> wrote:
>
> Mystery solved.  It was not being blocked by the list, nor by googlemail.  It
> was being forwarded to me, as it should be.  However, the problem was a
> recently added procmail recipe, obviously faulty.  When procmail encounters a
> problem that confuses it, it puts the messages 'in a safe place'.  I have
> just found the messages with another 100 or so, to be sorted through.
> Thankfully, the fetchmail recipe was the only one following the faulty one,
> or there could have been thousands.
>
> Apologies to all for wasting bandwidth.  Now to address the problem.

Hey, at least you've learned to check the destination of last resort.
It's something that's worth checking regularly and, along with your
mail log, is something worth checking any time things seem to be going
wrong.

It's also worth saying that any time there are problems with mail
to/from a list it's worth checking any archive of that list to see if
mail is reaching it, and if others are replying.  It's also worth
trying contacting the list administrators via the -owner address (in
this case fetchmail-users-owner@), which you did indirectly do in this
case ;)

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche