On 2007-03-26 17:49:38 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Also, I was unconvinced by the reasoning of several posters that > they use fetchmail and have never been bothered by losing email: If > I were losing email, how would I know? [...]
If you don't receive anything, this may be an indication. FYI, when I tried fetchmail for the first time, I lost all my mail that was retrieved by fetchmail. I immediately switched to getmail (though it is written in Python) and never went back to fetchmail. > Anyway, others who were also frightened by the bad things said about > fetchmail can try my recipe for moving to getmail but keeping exim, > procmail, and spamassassin. BTW, I also lost mail due to procmail. Twice. This was because of typos in my procmailrc, e.g. a missing backslash at the end of a line. Though procmail detected a problem with the syntax, it ignored the incorrect lines instead of putting the mail back in the queue. After the second time, I wrote a small procmailrc checker[*] (based on heuristics), automatically called during a "svn commit". I did other mistakes, but they were all found by my procmailrc checker. Now, I still don't like the way procmail works (in particular, LOG is used for two different things -- a really bad design), but I use it for "historical reasons". [*] http://www.vinc17.org/unix/#pmchecker I also lost mail due to spamassassin (well, I could retrieve it in my junk mailbox, hoping I didn't miss any important message), because the version in Debian/stable was out-of-date. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
