Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:03:09 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 feb 14, 09:34:13, Celejar wrote: > > > > Is there anything I can do to recover them? getmail is set to delete > > messages on the server after successful retrieval, and it's apparently > > doing so here, *even though the deliver

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 feb 14, 09:34:13, Celejar wrote: > > Is there anything I can do to recover them? getmail is set to delete > messages on the server after successful retrieval, and it's apparently > doing so here, *even though the delivery is failing*! That has not been my experience. > This behavior i

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-04 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:11:44 -0800 Mike Kupfer wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has > > anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs? > > FWIW, I've been using fetchmail, with maildrop as the MDA, for several > years. I'm

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
Celejar wrote: > Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has > anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs? FWIW, I've been using fetchmail, with maildrop as the MDA, for several years. I'm not aware of any lost mail in that time. regards, mike -- To UNSU

getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-03 Thread Celejar
Hi, I run getmail4 with a cli configuration to check and download mail from a bunch of POP accounts, like so: /usr/bin/getmail -d -r pop1 -r pop2 -r pop3 ... The mail is delivered to an mbox (mboxrd) mailbox, in usr/spool/mail/username Every now and then, something goes wrong (I have no idea wh