On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:39:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,29.Aug.08, 15:44:14, Mark Copper wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to request help understanding how some email went missing. > > > > exim's log shows the missing pieces going into maildir: > > 2008-08-26 18:23:08 1KY7sS-0003mR-Be => me <myaddress> R=local_us er > > T=maildir_home > > > > fetchmail should have retrieved the mail: > > poll myserver proto imap > > user "me", with password "secret", is "me" here, ssl > > > > The mail log shows emails being retrieved and flushed one by one: > > Aug 28 00:17:38 algol fetchmail[2677]: reading message [EMAIL > > PROTECTED]:1 > > 205 of 1231 (804 header octets) (853 body octets) flushed > > > > Only I ended up missing a number of emails. > > > > Where could the weak link be? > > Maybe fetchmail? Try getmail (the config is very easy to write), it > would rather get the same mail twice than loose it.
That's my best guess, too, at this point. Maybe I was begging for trouble for a line hit by failing to include a reasonable fetchlimit (which I have now attempted). I did see additional recommendations for getmail as I searched around. Yes, this is something I will do. Thank you. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
