Hi Robert:

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> 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.
>

Hmmm?  What is your procmail recipe?  Filtering?
Hard to evaluate without that?

You can also verify via debug level?

Might just post your reciple for us to scope?



> If anyone can solve this, the beer is on me (that ought to get some
> action -:))
>
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