On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been > reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. > Right now in fetchmailrc i have "set no bouncemail, antispam -1, > batchlimit 50, keep" as defaults. > Fetchmail in my case fetches email of several pop3 servers from where it > goes into exim and exim passes it on to icourer imap. > According to the man page fetchmail under --flush: " What you probably > want is the default set?ting: if you don't specify `-k', then > fetchmail will automatically delete messages after successful delivery. " > So if i remove 'keep' from the defaults fetchmail will automatically > delete messages from the pop server after successful delivery to my MTA, > exim in my case, if one goes by the manual. > From this it seems that even if the exim setup, or whatever MTA, is a > mess...fetchmail will not delete any mail because a delivery would > simply not be succesfull.
Successful delivery to your MTA. What your MTA then does with it is something that fetchmail knows nothing about. > Yet there's loads and loads of people > loosing email at one point or another due to a badly configured MTA. > In short, am i still at risk of loosing email even if i don't have an > antispam filter in exim (so no error 571 will be send from exim to > fetchmail). > > cheers. > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
