On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been > reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. > Right now in fetchmailrc i have "set no bouncemail, antispam -1, > batchlimit 50, keep" as defaults. > Fetchmail in my case fetches email of several pop3 servers from where it > goes into exim and exim passes it on to icourer imap. > According to the man page fetchmail under --flush: " What you probably > want is the default set?ting: if you don't specify `-k', then > fetchmail will automatically delete messages after successful delivery. " > So if i remove 'keep' from the defaults fetchmail will automatically > delete messages from the pop server after successful delivery to my MTA, > exim in my case, if one goes by the manual. > From this it seems that even if the exim setup, or whatever MTA, is a > mess...fetchmail will not delete any mail because a delivery would > simply not be succesfull. Yet there's loads and loads of people > loosing email at one point or another due to a badly configured MTA. > In short, am i still at risk of loosing email even if i don't have an > antispam filter in exim (so no error 571 will be send from exim to > fetchmail).
When fetchmail is instructed to keep, it won't delete mail from the remote box, so it is safe. Although, your remote box might fill up quite quickly... In general, a misconfigured MTA will potentially lose you mail. If I may ask, why does exim pass the mail onto courier imap? To test your MTA, try mailing locally and watch for successfuly delivery and bounces, followed by a remote test, and mailing out. At the moment I've been losing mail mostly due to procmail (or, my misconfiguration of procmail). -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
