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

[Anne W. <can...@go...>]

On Monday 27 Aug 2007, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> [ 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.
>
This happened to me just once before, about three years ago.  I had looked for 
the missing emails in what I remembered to be the place I found them last 
time, but things have moved on :-)

> 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 ;)

If the faulty recipe had been earlier in the queue, I'd have realised that 
messages were missing from many folders, and found the problem much quicker.  
Just the way it goes, I guess.  I hadn't thought of checking the archives, 
though, and that's a really stupid oversight.

Anne