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

2004-07-20 18:44:40
Thanks Konzack.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle(_at_)freenet(_dot_)de>
To: <fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: [fetchmail]Re: Re: WHERE ALL EMAILS GONE?

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.

Actually, I run fetchmail as 'root'.  It did not write to /var/mail/root
either
(as a last resort if failed to match local user).  When I pine, I can only
see root's existing emails. :-(

As I just post same question to Rob,  "Do you agree that the emails just
gone" like that (...and fetchmail has
deleted the messages, because I have used the "flush" option)??

Please help. rzmohd.

Greetings
Michelle

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