fetchmail+sieve: losing mail if cyrus is down

[Ken Murchison]

cyrus at nitwit.de wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I periodically fetch mail from my ISP via fetchmail and sort it into my IMAP 
> box via sieve. For some reason (reiserfs is crap?) it sometimes happens that 
> cyrus needs to recover DB and it not available during this time - but 
> fetchmail/sieve keep on going their job, of course.
> 
> So, it happens that that mail is being lost. I thought there would be some 
> buffering queue or somthing but obviously it is not.
> 
> 1) Are those mails really lost?
> 2) What can I do about that problem?

If a message can not be delivered by lmtpd because because it has a 
problem accessing the mailbox, it should return a temp failure to the 
delivering agent (fetchmail).

My guess is that fetchmail is deleting messages from your ISP account 
before it knows that it has been successfully delivered to Cyrus.

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