lost email

[Robert Holtzman]

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 -:))

-- 
Bob Holtzman
Key ID: 8D549279
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
  check the price of the beer"