lost email

[Eric Shubert]

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?

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-Eric 'shubes'