Kelly,
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:44:19PM +0000, Kelly Felkins wrote:
> Jason Tishler <jason <at> tishler.net> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for responding. Your suggestion for locating the spool file is
> wise. A few questions:
>
> - How do you know you haven't lost messages? It appears that the only
> notice I get is a brief message on my console, just before the message
> about "flushing" -- it's a bad feeling to see an error message,
> followed by "flushing".
I don't really know, hence the "AFAICT". Nevertheless, my perception is
that message delivery seems very reliable.
> - Any suggestions for diagnosing the problem?
Use VERBOSE=yes, as in the following:
$ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc-test </tmp/jtishler.mail
procmail: [4400] Fri Apr 23 16:42:06 2004
procmail: Rcfile: "/home/jtishler/.procmailrc-test"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/jtishler"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/cygdrive/g/cygwin/home/kellyf/Mail"
procmail: Couldn't chdir to "/cygdrive/g/cygwin/home/kellyf/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=."
procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=./inbox"
procmail: Locking "./inbox.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=./inbox"
procmail: Opening "./inbox"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "./inbox.lock"
From jtishler Tue Mar 30 13:30:54 2004
Subject: XYZ: FW: UNIX ID for Jason Tishler
Folder: ./inbox
The above indicates that your mail was not, lost but stored in ~/inbox.
This was confirmed by Robert. Can you confirm this too?
> It seems like procmail should return an error code, and fetchmail
> should respond to that error code - this is apparently not happening.
> I don't know if procmail is not returning an error status, or if
> fetchmail is ignoring it. How can I verify this?
procmail is returning 0, as confirmed by Robert:
$ echo $?
0
Which explains why fetchmail flushes the message.
> Any other suggestions? Like, should I dump fetchmail or procmail or
> both? Any recommended alternatives?
Use reasonable locations (e.g., local drives) to store your mail
messages.
Jason
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