On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 09:04 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned: > On 2003-11-03 21:43:26 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Whatever you think about what a mail fetcher should be doing, >> shouldn't you read at least the first paragraph of the man page >> before using a tool? > > This isn't sufficient: it gives no warning that mail may be lost by > doing this. I was rather naive and thought that if this failed, then > fetchmail wouldn't delete the mail.
That's because fetchmail didn't lose the mail; the delivery system did. > Reading the man page won't solve the problems inherent to a dangerous > method. Even if you have a working system, the configuration of your > local delivery system may change in the future. It is still possible > to make a mistake when implementing an antispam rule and reject to > much mail (I know sysadmins who did that wrong). You're absolutely right -- a misconfigured MTA is dangerous and can lose your mail. What does this have to do with fetchmail? -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
