Re: fetchmail/procmail lost messages

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Kelly,

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:59:06PM -0700, Kelly Felkins wrote:
> For example, today the hard drive that I use for both the spool file
> and my mail boxes was off-line. Five messages to /dev/null.
> 
> I'm inclined to think this is a bad design. Or have I got it
> configured incorrectly?

Possibly.

I highly recommend using a spool file that is *always* on-line (e.g.,
/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME).  Nevertheless, fetchmail should not have
flushed the message if procmail exited with a nonzero status.

BTW, I have used Cygwin fetchmail/procmail to process my mail for about
3 years.  I process more 10,000 emails per month.  So, I have processed
more than 300,000 messages during this time period.  AFAICT, I have not
lost a single message.

Jason

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