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Re: Is procmail dropping messages?

2004-08-08 18:26:33
* Nancy McGough <nm-reverse-spam-filter(_at_)ii(_dot_)deflexion(_dot_)com> 
[2004-08-07 06:59]:

I recommend *not* using those recipes. I tried them years ago and
had some problems so quit using them. There are other people who
recommend not using those. I don't remember the details of the
problems, but maybe someone else here will and will post about them.

I'd like to know exactly what the issue is, because dupes are pretty
irritating, and if formail is unreliable, I'll implement something
else- even if it means doing md5 hashes and keeping a database of
hashes.  

I searched the archives, and got flooded with messages about dupe
filtering.  None of them pinpointed anything that could be a common
problem.  

I'm a little suspicious that something is wrong between fetchmail and
my ISP, because my fetchmail log has lots of lines that look like
this:

  fetchmail: reading message mindfuq(_at_)mail(_dot_)zianet(_dot_)com:1 of 3 
(26764
  octets) 
  fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
  fetchmail:  retained
  
and some with this error:

  fetchmail: reading message mindfuq(_at_)mail(_dot_)comcast(_dot_)net:4 of 11 
(461 octets) fetchmail: message delimiter found while scanning headers
  fetchmail:  not flushed

So the issue of dropped mail may not be a procmail one.

The issue of the same message getting routed to different inboxes must
be a procmail issue, but that's not as critical.

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