From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 19:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB25A37BB12 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-005orportP242.dialsprint.net [63.178.69.4]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24064; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01825; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Posted-Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004030211.TAA01825@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: cjm2@earthling.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <001201bf9ca7$23cef360$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> (cjm2@earthling.net) Subject: Re: RE: Funny mail Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After a long night of experiments of rather dubious scientific value, I have concluded that there is indeed a delay between fetchmail's indication that the mail has been received and sendmail's actual delivery of the message. Duplication of the problem I experienced consists of simply typing "emacs" (no return yet) then switching to another console and downloading email via fetchmail. As soon as fetchmail says it's done, switch back, hit and hit your "RMAIL" hot key (F6 on my system). I guess I was just too impatient? I have seen occasional rejected mail, but not coincident with the problem I was seeing. Thank you, though, for your well thought replies and your time. Hopefully next time it will be more challenging for you. :) > From: "C J Michaels" > > One other thing I thought of. Are your logs, or the daily cron scripts, or > anything of that sort showing any mail as being rejected? Probably not > since you said sendmail is showing all 5 as delivered, but I thought I'd > ask. > > -Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derrick Baumer" > To: > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 5:35 PM > Subject: Re: RE: Funny mail > > > I think I may have figured it out...maybe. I'm having trouble > > replicating it if I have found it, though. Is it possible that > > sendmail is just taking it's own sweet time in delivering that last > > message? It might not have put it in my mailbox before I grabbed the > > mail with RMAIL. (I *do* type pretty fast :)... > > > > Problem is, the problem has decided to hide away, it seems, like the > > car that makes the funny noise except when the mechanic is looking. I > > will keep working on it, and, as you suggested, will leave the mail on > > the server until I'm sure I have it all. I'll update you if I make > > any progress. > > > > > From: "C J Michaels" > > > > > > There's also a chance that the mail is somehow being filtered out, > whether > > > it be by RMAIL (I'm not familiar with it) or maybe procmail if it's > > > installed, etc... > > > > > > I doubt that it's a fetchmail problem is sendmail is showing all 5 as > being > > > delivered. > > > > > > -Chris > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > Derrick Baumer wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > > > > > I use fetchmail to download my email from my ISP. I watch it as it > > > > downloads message 1 of 5, message 2 of 5, etc... Then I start my MUA > > > > and read my mail. > > > > > > > > The problem is that, using that example of 5 emails, sometimes when I > > > > go to read them, there's only four listed, even though I just sat and > > > > watched it download five of them. It doesn't happen every time, but > > > > if I download my email three times a day, one of them probably "drops" > > > > > an email like that... > > > > -- > > Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software > > -- Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message