How can I configure fetchmail/procmail to fail *safe*? So that, if there are any mail processing problems, messages are not lost?
I recently started using fetchmail, procmail, and mutt to handle email on my pc in cygwin. Apparently, if procmail has a problem, the particular message is lost. My poor little procmail has had a variety of problems, and has lost a variety of messages at this point. Each problem has been easy to fix, but the messages are long gone. 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? .fetchmailrc set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log set invisible set no bouncemail poll "pop.mail.yahoo.com" protocol pop3 username "mumble" password "mumble" fetchall nokeep mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" .procmailrc MAILDIR=/cygdrive/g/cygwin/home/kellyf/Mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
