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Re: getmail FAIL - lost email



On Lu, 03 feb 14, 09:34:13, Celejar wrote:
> 
> Is there anything I can do to recover them? getmail is set to delete
> messages on the server after successful retrieval, and it's apparently
> doing so here, *even though the delivery is failing*!
 
That has not been my experience.

> This behavior is surely unacceptable. Is there a way to tell getmail to
> wait to delete until successful delivery? How about a way to tell
> getmail to abort if the mailbox is corrupt? What causes this corruption
> (this is a laptop, no power failure or disk corruption AFAIK, etc.)?

fsck?

> How to prevent it? Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has
> anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs?

I'm running getmail for years now and never had such issues. You might 
want to report this upstream, the Author is usually very responsive on 
the mailing list.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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