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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 116871] mails are lost during download
From:       t.wright1 () mindspring ! com
Date:       2006-06-27 3:28:41
Message-ID: 20060627032841.15784.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From t.wright1 mindspring com  2006-06-27 05:28 -------
The bug with e-mail messages disappearing came from Fetchmail 6.2.5 running as a \
daemon. This application comes with the SuSE 10 distribution and will install with \
numerous other packages when upgrading. Unknown to me, Fetchmail was running in the \
background and checking my POP3 mail account every 10 minutes. If it found messages \
on the server, it downloaded them and deleted them off the server. Lacking an \
application to take them from Port 25 (default), it appended a UNIX mail text file \
with the downloaded messages in the  /var/spool/mail/directory. The file name is the \
same as the login for the session. Fetchmail maintained a log file in \
/var/log/fetchmail, and when I found it, I realized what was happening.  Not knowing \
what Fetchmail was doing, I saw it as mail vanishing off of the server. Earthlink's \
log files showed it as a routine POP3 mail retrieval. What gave it away was my \
dynamic IP showing up on Earthlink's logs when I knew I hadn't used KMail to check \
for messages. Fetchmail's message retrieval occurred every time I dialed in, because \
the Fetchmail daemon was programmed to retrieve mail every 600 seconds. All the \
"vanished" messages were recovered by importing the file from the /var/spool/mail/ \
directory to KMail as a UNIX message text file. This had been going on since \
upgrading to SuSE 10 in December 2005, but by dumb luck, most of the time I \
downloaded messages to KMail before Fetchmail could get them, until recently. \
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