Version: 1.4.3 (using KDE 3.0.3) Compiler: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110) OS: Linux (i586) release 2.4.18-3 i use fetchmail to fetch mail from several mail servers, it passes the mails to sendmail, they finally arrive in /var/spool/mail/<username> when interval mail checking is run while new mails are still coming into /var/spool/mail/<username> - mails can get lost. in a test with 100 mails 14 were lost which is totally unacceptable. as a solution i disabled interval mail checking, now at least no mails get lost, but i would of course appreciate interval mail checking.
don't let fetchmail deliver to sendmail but to procmail and use the procmail locking in kmail. I'm not sure how your sendmail locks the mailbox, but kmail and sendmail have to use the same locking mechanism.
Subject: Re: Enable interval mail checking causes mail loss On Wednesday 30 October 2002 09:34, Stephan Kulow wrote: > don't let fetchmail deliver to sendmail but to procmail and > use the procmail locking in kmail. I'm not sure how your sendmail > locks the mailbox, but kmail and sendmail have to use the same > locking mechanism. At least I can simply use procmail locking in KMail with sendmail. My sendmail checks for procmail locking. So it shouldn't be necessary to use procmail. Anyway, this is no bug in KMail but a problem of whatever locking method the reporter uses. Most likely he tried FCTNL as this doesn't work with sendmail what I learned the hard way when loosing mail when I used it. Regards, Ingo
Subject: Re: Enable interval mail checking causes mail loss In an older episode (Thursday 31 October 2002 01:07), Ingo "Kl
Subject: Re: Enable interval mail checking causes mail loss On Thursday 31 October 2002 01:24, real name wrote: > since FCTNL apparently was enabled by default in KMail (i didn't > change any locking settings IIRC), it is at least very closely > related to KMail. i would even consider it worth mentioning in a > dialog box when KMail is run the first time - why let everybody learn > it the hard way? I agree that showing a warning when the user creates a local account with the potentially dangerous FCTNL locking would be a good idea. Regards, Ingo
Reopen and make it a wish
Replaced generalp.fault@gmx.net with null@kde.org due to bounces by reporter
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