On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:15, Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > <snip - wondering when fetchmail can lose mail> > > > > > > > Successful delivery to your MTA. What your MTA then does with it > > > is something that fetchmail knows nothing about. > > > > I don't know if that's _entirely_ true. I think that fetchmail waits > > for one of the "okay I handled that successfully" SMTP codes from the > > MTA before it deletes the message off the POP server. If it gets a > > failure code from the MTA it will _not_ delete the mail. > > > > So really, the only way you're likely to lose your mail with fetchmail > > is if your MTA is so misconfigured that it'll lose mail and still > > report a success. > > I believe ScruLoose is right. I recently changed the configuration on my > mailserver and started getting reports from friends about e-mails > bouncing - with my new configuration, I needed to tell fetchmail to > deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of simply "username". So, they > were seeing bounce messages saying there was no such user on my server.
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