I would think that the several mentions in the documentation about
how careful fetchmail is about not deleting from the server
until its been successfully accepted by the delivery program,
(faq D3 and others)
and this report pointing out a glaring hole, would have
generated at least 1 reply or feedback message.
But not a single reply.
Brian
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 16:45:00 -0600, Brian Foddy wrote:
Due to a recently misconfigured hosts.allow/deny, my localhost
sendmail was unavailable to fetch mail. A fetchmail -v included
the statement of:
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.0.0 Access denied"
User error, I'll admit that. But fetchmail still deleted all the mail off
the remote IMAPS server and doesn't have appeared to have
stored it anywhere I can find. Effectively deleting all my
mail during this time period.
Is this a bug? Is this known gotcha? The only mention I saw in the
FAQ was to make sure sendmail is working, no mention that it
would dispose of messages if it wasn't.
fetchmail ver 5.9.0
sendmail ver 8.11.6
Linux Redhat 7.1
Brian