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Re: mail missing between exim and mutt



On Fri,29.Aug.08, 15:44:14, Mark Copper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request help understanding how some email went missing.
> 
> exim's log shows the missing pieces going into maildir:
>    2008-08-26 18:23:08 1KY7sS-0003mR-Be => me <myaddress> R=local_us er T=maildir_home
> 
> fetchmail should have retrieved the mail:
>    poll myserver proto imap 
>        user "me", with password "secret", is "me" here, ssl
> 
> The mail log shows emails being retrieved and flushed one by one:
>    Aug 28 00:17:38 algol fetchmail[2677]: reading message me@myserver:1
>    205 of 1231 (804 header octets) (853 body octets) flushed
> 
> Only I ended up missing a number of emails.
> 
> Where could the weak link be?
 
Maybe fetchmail? Try getmail (the config is very easy to write), it 
would rather get the same mail twice than loose it.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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