Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 05 February 2004 22:35, Eli Billauer wrote: >> If the SMTP is up, all is good. But if I kill the daemon, it attempts to >> connect, fails, then resorts to procmail, fails, gives up and... DELETES >> the messages from the POP server (as the transcript below shows). > > That's really weird. From fetchmail man page (this section worth reading > in entirety): > > RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES > The protocols fetchmail uses to talk to mailservers are next to bullet- > proof. In normal operation forwarding to port 25, no message is ever > deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the host until the SMTP lis- > tener on the client side has acknowledged to fetchmail that the message > has been either accepted for delivery or rejected due to a spam block. > ... > > This is a bug worth investigating (on some dummy mails... don't loose more) > BTW: you may want to check the 'keep' option. I used it a long time ago. > > -- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Something is obviously amiss. In the last 2 years of using fetchmail to drop messages into my mailbox I have never experienced this. Note that other people have experienced this though: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2001-December/005514.html It looks like some application set you up the bomb. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
