On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 ScruLoose <scruloose+debuser@eastlink.ca> 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 username@mydomain.net, instead of simply "username". So, they were seeing bounce messages saying there was no such user on my server. Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 NT == No Thanks
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