-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that I had an incoming mail message go missing, and am looking at possible ways to prevent it in the future. Pointers to what I've missed much appreciated. I use fetchmail (in daemon mode) to pop mail from my mailserver as well as a couple of external servers. The mail is filtered via procmail and spam assassin, and delivered to /var/spool/mail/mfratoni. I then view the mail with kmail. This morning, it appears that I checked the mail with kmail at exactly the same time as fetchmail was retrieving the mail. This appears to be a "Bad Thing" (tm) ;) Here are a couple of log messages showing the message arrive: Nov 11 07:22:38 paradox fetchmail[1386]: 1 message for user at pop.server.net (5840 octets). Nov 11 07:22:38 paradox fetchmail[1386]: reading message 1 of 1 (5840 octets) Nov 11 07:22:39 paradox sendmail[26484]: gABCMcdd026484: from=<sender@server.net>, size=5806, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<4.2.2.20021111071844.00a48b00@pop.server.net>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=paradox [127.0.0.1] Nov 11 07:22:39 paradox fetchmail[1386]: flushed Nov 11 07:22:40 paradox spamd[657]: connection from paradox [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 39287 Nov 11 07:22:40 paradox spamd[26493]: info: setuid to mfratoni succeeded Nov 11 07:22:40 paradox spamd[26493]: clean message (0.8/8.0) for mfratoni:500 in 0 seconds, 6065 bytes. Nov 11 07:22:42 paradox sendmail[26489]: gABCMcdd026484: to=<mfratoni@localhost>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=local, pri=35988, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent So, the mail was retrieved, flushed from the server, passed to procmail and spamd, then delivered to the mail spool. Verified from the procmail log as well: $ grep -A 2 "sender@server.net" procmail.log - From sender@server.net Mon Nov 11 07:22:40 2002 Subject: Quick question Folder: /var/spool/mail/mfratoni All of the mail fetched from other servers prior to this message was delivered and received. This particular message vanished, however. Looking through the logs, 6 messages were fetched, but only 5 were retrieved by kmail. My best guess is that kmail read and deleted my local mail spool _while_ sendmail was writting the last message. Does this seem plausible, and can it be prevented? - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE90GXen/07WoAb/SsRAj6mAJ0U2sIYSsv3KtVnxYQKUWzc8+QptwCfbgUQ IPMawy/6/uP98eJ2vB34MM4= =iwqT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
