On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:07:45PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:39:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri,29.Aug.08, 15:44:14, Mark Copper wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to request help understanding how some email went missing.
> > >
> > > exim's log shows the missing pieces going into maildir:
> > > 2008-08-26 18:23:08 1KY7sS-0003mR-Be => me <myaddress> R=local_us er
> > > T=maildir_home
> > >
> > > fetchmail should have retrieved the mail:
> > > poll myserver proto imap
> > > user "me", with password "secret", is "me" here, ssl
> > >
> > > The mail log shows emails being retrieved and flushed one by one:
> > > Aug 28 00:17:38 algol fetchmail[2677]: reading message [EMAIL
> > > PROTECTED]:1
> > > 205 of 1231 (804 header octets) (853 body octets) flushed
> > >
> > > Only I ended up missing a number of emails.
> > >
> > > Where could the weak link be?
> >
> > Maybe fetchmail? Try getmail (the config is very easy to write), it
> > would rather get the same mail twice than loose it.
Here is a partial history of one of hundreds of lost emails:
Part of the header of the lost email:
Received: from localhost
([127.0.0.1] helo=algol.milkyway ident=fetchmail)
by algol.milkyway with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))
id 1KYZoW-00013U-00
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:12:56 -0500
Received: from <server>.com [<server IP>]
by algol.milkyway with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.6)
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (single-drop); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:12:56 -0500
(CDT)
so fetchmail has handed the mail to exim, right?
But I never received it:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
pipe delivery process timed out
(this is from the body of a frozen bounce--my ISP blocked it as a
"relay")
So can anyone say what might be going on here? Why would a delivery
process time out on the local machine? Or better, how to avoid this?
Upgrade Exim? Avoid Exim? Clean up the mail spool? Anything?
Thanks.
Mark
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