Re: additional fetchmail/procmail questions

[<http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Dale Kiefling <http://www.skywriterhosting.com/~dale> wrote:
> Hey Robert,
> 
>   I incorporated your suggestions in ,procmailrc which I am attaching
> along with the latest log file.  Thanks for the help. When I run this
> against sabine's account I see 411 emails on the old server and
> fetchmail brings over about 260.  Any ideas  based on the log what the
> missing mails are?

All the trashing seems to be due to the "formail -D 200000 .messids" line.  I
can only guess that when there's a missing Message-ID header field, it
/dev/null's the message.

Two things to try:

1) Instead of /dev/null, put the messages into a file, i.e.,

   :0hwc
   |formail -D 200000 .messids
   LOG="$FILENO"
   # duplicate case -- throw away
   :a:
   trashed

   Then, look at the messages to see if they're missing a Message-ID as I
hypothesize.

2) If indeed the problem is missing Message-IDs, then move:

   :0fhw
   *!^message-id:
   |formail -a Message-ID:

   to be above the above ("duplicate case") recipe.

> I tried the fetchmail -a this time.

Good.  BTW, for future reference, where is the procmail.log located?

> Cheers,
> Dale
> 
> > --- Dale Kiefling <http://www.skywriterhosting.com/~dale> wrote:
> >> Is this what you mean?
> >
> > Yes, this is better.
> >
> > Some more suggestions below.