-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 November 2002 08:56 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. Yes, I've done that, and procmail seems to do the right thing: procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/mfratoni.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/mfratoni" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/mfratoni" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Unlocking "/var/spool/mail/mfratoni.lock" procmail: Notified comsat: "mfratoni@55372:/var/spool/mail/mfratoni" > 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 Good idea, thanks. I'm also going to file a bug against kmail, and see where that goes. I'm guessing kmail isn't honoring the file lock? - -- - -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) iD8DBQE90akvn/07WoAb/SsRAohyAJ9CWwou1hfLTpv4NGkyAu66lAer7QCeIzNM ew7fEaTQM1volsaCNBJF/s8= =pJql -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
