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[fetchmail]Re: Re: WHERE ALL EMAILS GONE?

2004-07-20 05:40:45
Am 2004-07-20 17:24:45, schrieb rzmohd:

I don't understand your explanation for no. 2 below :-(

2)  Because the non-existant $USER, the message is bounced
   with an Error and has been deleted on the Server

If fetchmail can not deliver messages because there is no diskspace, 
or the $USER does not exist, fetchmail writes to the defailt mailbox 
for example "postmaster". if "postmaser" or an alias does not exist, 
fetchmail tries to write to "/var/mail/root" if it is run from root.
Normaly an Error log entry and leafe the message on the server as 
unfetched. 

Now you have run fetchmail as $USER, where it can not write to 
"postmaster" and "root". 

So I am thinking, fetchmail has deletetd the messages, because you 
have used the "flush" option. 


Greetings
Michelle

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