From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 6:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp248-183.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.248.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7C437BA1D for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 06:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA65225; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:27:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Message-ID: <001201bf9ca7$23cef360$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> From: "C J Michaels" To: Cc: References: <200004012135.NAA04165@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: RE: Funny mail Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:26:33 -0400 Organization: WCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message