Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: cjm2@earthling.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Funny mail Message-ID: <200004030211.TAA01825@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <001201bf9ca7$23cef360$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> (cjm2@earthling.net)
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After a long night of experiments of rather dubious scientific value,
I have concluded that there is indeed a delay between fetchmail's
indication that the mail has been received and sendmail's actual
delivery of the message. Duplication of the problem I experienced
consists of simply typing "emacs" (no return yet) then switching to
another console and downloading email via fetchmail. As soon as
fetchmail says it's done, switch back, hit <return> and hit your
"RMAIL" hot key (F6 on my system). I guess I was just too impatient?
I have seen occasional rejected mail, but not coincident with the
problem I was seeing. Thank you, though, for your well thought
replies and your time. Hopefully next time it will be more
challenging for you. :)
> From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
>
> One other thing I thought of. Are your logs, or the daily cron scripts, or
> anything of that sort showing any mail as being rejected? Probably not
> since you said sendmail is showing all 5 as delivered, but I thought I'd
> ask.
>
> -Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick Baumer" <bduk@earthlink.net>
> To: <cjm2@earthling.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: RE: Funny mail
>
> > I think I may have figured it out...maybe. I'm having trouble
> > replicating it if I have found it, though. Is it possible that
> > sendmail is just taking it's own sweet time in delivering that last
> > message? It might not have put it in my mailbox before I grabbed the
> > mail with RMAIL. (I *do* type pretty fast :)...
> >
> > Problem is, the problem has decided to hide away, it seems, like the
> > car that makes the funny noise except when the mechanic is looking. I
> > will keep working on it, and, as you suggested, will leave the mail on
> > the server until I'm sure I have it all. I'll update you if I make
> > any progress.
> >
> > > From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
> > >
> > > 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-----
> > >
> > > 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...
> >
> > --
> > Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
> > <bduk@earthlink.net>
--
Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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