On 2006-07-21 1305, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On my laptop I run Postfix to send mails. I receive mails from my > gmail account using fetchmail. > > I'm using Maildir format for mail storage. In Postfix, I'm using > procmail for mail delivery. > I've also set certain rules in my .procmailrc file to filter mails. > > Recently I've been noticing that even though fetchmail fetches mails > and flushes them to Postfix, under Maildir I don't see those mails. > > I looked into Procmail's log file and verified that procmail did copy > the mail to Maildir/cur folder but physically I didn't find the mail > over there. > > I'm now worried because I don't know how many such mails I've lost. > > 1) Is safecat the only safe utility for mail delivery to Maildir. > 2) Should I instead use Qmail. > 3) Why is this happening and where might have the lost mails gone ? > 4) What configuration settings people use on their laptops in the > context of mail ? > 5) Is there any good Email Laptop HOWTO ? > > Please CC me. I'm not subscribed to the list. I'm using a similar setup, with the exception that I'm not using maildir (what is it good for, again?): - Postfix does the delivering business. - Fetchmail fetches through TLS'ed connections to my home server - Procmail is MDA for postfix - Mutt is MUA. The only advice I can give is that you look into the actual execution of a misdelivery. Trace the execution of procmail, by setting mailbox_command = strace procmail -a "$EXTENSION" 2> /home/rrs/pmout In main.cf. I tried it, and to avoid bounces in your attempts, that pmout should be chmod'ed 0777. BTW, I remember that this article [0] used maildir. That might be of interest. Regards, skrewz. [0] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/364
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