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 -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/
