Hi, I'm using mutt/exim/fetchmail and have been quite happy with it . . . until now. I'm pretty sure I lost 56 pieces of mail this morning.
I've always been intrigued with the interaction between the 3 above tools. Basically, I: - connect to the internet, - run fetchmail - exim delivers me 10 pieces (yes, I know I can change that...) - I start mutt and read those 10 pieces - in a few minutes exim delivers the rest of the mail (if you read this list I'm sure you have plenty of mail in the morning too ;-) Now for the interesting part. I've got mutt running, and when I go to exit mutt, it usually shows me the rest of the mail. It seemed to work like it worked reliably. I have a cron job which runs every morning. Basically it runs pon, fetches mail and news, and disconnects. Normally I don't have mutt running at that time, but last night I went to bed with mutt running. I got a note which is generated from the cron saying fetchmail received 56 pieces of mail, but the mail was no where to be found. I guess when I exited mutt it overwrote the new mail in /var/spool/mail/joe, but why doesn't it do that all the time? I think this happened to me once before. I guess the best thing to do is to make sure I exit mutt, but I wish there were a more bullet proof solution. Am I missing something? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian/GNU Linux (Slink)
