* Manoj Srivastava <@> [2016-01-21 10:15]:
[snip]
Just eyeballing the code seems to indicate that something did go
seriously wrong; and perl just died at the defined line, since there
should be no way to not have another diagnostic line after determining
the name of the emergency mailbox file, whether or not the emergency
dump worked, unless perl had died. If that si the case, the problem is
now fixed, though I am left feeling very uneasy about what went wrong
in the first place.
In an afterthought, I think that my mail loss came from the fact that
Perl died, before mailagent could dump the message somewhere. I guess
that this is essentially what you wrote about. Hence, I agree with you
that the problem is now fixed.
However, I was still intrigued by those lines in my log file:
16/01/20 19:17:43 mailagent[178656]: NOTICE not saved, leaving in mailbox
16/01/20 19:17:43 mailagent[178656]: WARNING using /home/rafael/mbox.rafael
for mailbox
The mailbox should be instead /var/spool/mail/rafael, since this is the
value of the $mailfile variable, defined in /usr/bin/mailagent. I found
where the problem comes from and proposed a patch for it in Bug#812308.
Best,
Rafael
