Re: mail missing between exim and mutt
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
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