-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:22:22 -0500, Michael Fratoni wrote: > 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. Most likely it was due to procmail not using the same file locking mechanism than kmail (or even no file locking at all like Mozilla Mail, IIRC). You can add "VERBOSE=yes" to your ~/.procmailrc and see what lock file procmail uses. Then find out what locks kmail uses. Until you've found a bullet-proof way, you could store all your incoming mails in a backup folder with a procmail rule at the top of your procmailrc: :0 c: backup - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE90Qin0iMVcrivHFQRArjlAJ9Sl3S0ayp9rEVaOHiqJOuQOLTM3wCfXJlm bJVM90ilk97hVl2a5FF89Hc= =h8g4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
