Re: mail missing between exim and mutt

[Mark Copper <mcopper@titaninterface.com>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:39:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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.

That's my best guess, too, at this point.  Maybe I was begging for
trouble for a line hit by failing to include a reasonable fetchlimit
(which I have now attempted).

I did see additional recommendations for getmail as I searched around.
Yes, this is something I will do.

Thank you.

Mark