Re: merged messages mystery
I was getting these _all the time_, a few weeks ago. I've since switched
to using Maildir, and I haven't had a problem since.
I'm using exim and procmail; in my .procmailrc, I appended the following:
:O:
*
/var/spool/mail/dilinger/
The trailing '/' tells procmail to use Maildir format; since
/var/spool/mail/dilinger is still technically my mailbox, I didn't
need to make any changes to my mutt or $MAIL. Oh, I think I had
to physically mkdir /var/spool/mail/dilinger, I forget..
I still have my other mailing lists siphoned to ~/Mail/<ml name>,
but corruption in those was never a problem.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:04:43AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>
> Some users of our network (a Debian unstable mail server with postfix,
> procmail, uw-imap, uw-ipop3d and Oulook Express clients) report
> instances of merged e-mail messages: two separate messages become one
> with merged headers and loss of one of the messages' body.
>
> Myself (using fetchmail and procmail) I have occasionnaly received
> merged messages in which the bodies were joined by a thick slab of null
> characters.
>
> Has anybody dealt with theses phenomena yet?
>
> [ see example of merged message as attachment ]
>
> --
> First Law of System Requirements:
> "Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about..."
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> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:52:00 +0200
> Subject: proposition de rendez-vous de la part de Bernard ACHACHE
> From: Multiscore <MULTISCORE.SA@wanadoo.fr>
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> Monsieur WELSCH
> bonjour
>
>
> Nous avons bien re=E7u votre courrier du 27 mars ce dont nous vous remercions
>
> Bernard ACHACHE vous propose les rendez-vous suivants =E0 la TOUR MONTPARNASS=
> E
> :
>
> - le 4 avril =E0 19 h
> - le 5 avril =E0 19 h
> - le 12 avril =E0 19 h
>
> Merci de nous faire savoir si l'un de ces rendez-vous peut vous convenir
>
> Dans cette attente et avec l'assurance de nos sentiments d=E9vou=E9s
>
>
> Dominique MOLL
>
--
"... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited
by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when
you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new
turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily
removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition
-- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, rriggs@tesser.com
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