lost email

[Bob Elzer]

I've had times when trying to get my mail from gmail, that a connection
problem happens, and the result is duplicate emails from various people.

My guess would be that you had the same kind of connection problem and the
email kept getting retransmitted, thus counted multiple times, and that
possibly the final delivery recognized it as a duplicate and removed it.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Robert
Holtzman
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:59 PM
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: lost email

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:23:50AM -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > This one really has me snowed. I use fetchmail to d/l mail and route 
> > it through procmail with mailstat to track how many msgs are in what 
> > mailbox. For a while now I've noticed a discrepancy between the 
> > number shown in mailstat and the number in my mailboxes. Usually 
> > it's just a few msgs but this morning the difference was dramatic. Such
as:
> > 
> >                              mailstat              msgs in
> >                               shows                mailbox
> > sounder.......................23.....................3
> > /var/mai/holtzm...............29....................14
> > INCOMING.......................6.....................3
> > ubuntu-users..................27....................12
> > 
> > My procmail log agrees with mailstat. Unfortunately I didn't have 
> > verbose logging turned on, since rectified so I may know more next 
> > time. It doesn't seem to be an isp, fetchmail, or procmail problem.
> > Right now I have no idea where to start troubleshooting. Searching 
> > on "lost email" turned up nothing close.
> > 
> > If anyone can solve this, the beer is on me (that ought to get some 
> > action -:))
> > 
> 
> Which type of mailbox (maildir|mbox)?
> Are you using imap or pop3?

pop3 and mbox.

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