On 2006-07-21 1305, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On my laptop I run Postfix to send mails. I receive
mails from my
> gmail account using fetchmail.
>
> I'm using Maildir format for mail storage. In Postfix,
I'm using
> procmail for mail delivery.
> I've also set certain rules in my .procmailrc file to
filter mails.
>
> Recently I've been noticing that even though fetchmail
fetches mails
> and flushes them to Postfix, under Maildir I don't see
those mails.
>
> I looked into Procmail's log file and verified that
procmail did copy
> the mail to Maildir/cur folder but physically I didn't
find the mail
> over there.
>
> I'm now worried because I don't know how many such
mails I've lost.
>
> 1) Is safecat the only safe utility for mail delivery
to Maildir.
> 2) Should I instead use Qmail.
> 3) Why is this happening and where might have the lost
mails gone ?
> 4) What configuration settings people use on their
laptops in the
> context of mail ?
> 5) Is there any good Email Laptop HOWTO ?
>
> Please CC me. I'm not subscribed to the list.
I'm using a similar setup, with the exception that I'm not
using
maildir (what is it good for, again?):
- Postfix does the delivering business.
- Fetchmail fetches through TLS'ed connections to my home
server
- Procmail is MDA for postfix
- Mutt is MUA.
The only advice I can give is that you look into the actual
execution
of a misdelivery. Trace the execution of procmail, by
setting
mailbox_command = strace procmail -a
"$EXTENSION" 2> /home/rrs/pmout
In main.cf. I tried it, and to avoid bounces in your
attempts, that
pmout should be chmod'ed 0777.
BTW, I remember that this article [0] used maildir. That
might be of
interest.
Regards, skrewz.
[0] htt
p://www.debian-administration.org/articles/364
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