Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:22:36 -0500 From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: "Derrick Baumer" <bduk@earthlink.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Funny mail Message-ID: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIAEBMCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003301541190.33903-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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There's also a chance that the mail is somehow being filtered out, whether it be by RMAIL (I'm not familiar with it) or maybe procmail if it's installed, etc... I doubt that it's a fetchmail problem is sendmail is showing all 5 as being delivered. -Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ryan Thompson Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:47 PM To: Derrick Baumer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funny mail Derrick Baumer wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I use fetchmail to download my email from my ISP. I watch it as it > downloads message 1 of 5, message 2 of 5, etc... Then I start my MUA > and read my mail. > > The problem is that, using that example of 5 emails, sometimes when I > go to read them, there's only four listed, even though I just sat and > watched it download five of them. It doesn't happen every time, but > if I download my email three times a day, one of them probably "drops" > an email like that. > > I'm running 3.4-STABLE with the base-installation of sendmail and a > standard ports-installed fetchmail. > > /etc/sendmail.cf is pretty standard, with only DS, DM and Dj changed > from its install state. > > I am using emacs RMAIL as my MUA. Emacs version is 19.34b. > > There are no other users on my system to get email for. 'ls > /var/mail/' only shows my one user account. It's not going to root, > and as far as I can tell, it's not going to anyone else either. > > Looking at /var/log/maillog, sendmail seems to think that all five of > them were indeed sent to the local user as intended. If this is true, the only other question I have is, what does your mail file look like? When you don't receive a message in RMAIL, cat /var/mail/yourusername and determine if the message is actually there. If it is, it's a problem with RMAIL. If it isn't, it may be a sendmail problem (or, perhaps by some header rewrite error, a fetchmail problem, but you say maillog shows delivery). I haven't used fetchmail, but another (less likely) alternative is you have encountered an off-by-one bug in fetchmail, where you really don't have five messages, only 4, and whatever status it reports is incorrect. If you want the whole picture, configure fetchmail to leave mail on the server for you. Then, if and when this happens again, log onto your ISPs POP3 server (with telnet on port 110, for best results) and do a STAT on your mbox to see how many messages are there. RETR any messages you think fetchmail may have missed. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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