Re: additional fetchmail/procmail questions

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

--- Dale Kiefling <http://www.skywriterhosting.com/~dale> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>    I am still seeing some issues when transferring mail from the old
> BayNVC server.  The two biggest issues are:
> 
> 1.  Not all the mail comes over for any given user, maybe half?  I can't
> see a pattern in what does not come over.  I added the procmail commands
> you suggested regarding missing ids:
> 
> .procmailrc:
> VERBOSE=on
> LOGFILE=procmail.log
> 
> :0hwc
> |formail -D 200000 .messids
> LOG="$FILENO"
> 
> :0fhw
> *!^message-id:
> |formail -a Message-ID:
> 
> # duplicate case -- throw away
> :a
> /dev/null

This is not right.  If you keep this, you need to move it up below the "formail
-D 200000 .messids" line.  The "a" means "and", meaning "if the previous recipe
executed and executed successfully".  This is probably throwing away any
message which doesn't have a Message-ID.

> :0w
> *^TO\/[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*@baynvc\.org
> {
>         :0
>         !$MATCH
> }
> 
> :0
> !$LOGNAME
> 
> Can you suggest any other strategies here?  Can you take a look at the logs?

I couldn't find the logs.  Could you please tell me where they are?

> 2.  Fetchmail seems to fail now when I partially through processing
> another user:
> 
> fetchmail: reading message http://www.baynvc.org/~http://www.email.baynvc.org/~erica:16 of 118
> (464 header octets) fetchmail:  (34 body octets) procmail: [31649] Wed May
> 23 08:16:53 2007
> procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
> procmail: Opening "procmail.log"
> fetchmail:  not flushed
> fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from erica@http://www.email.baynvc.org/~baynvc.org
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

34 body octets?  That seems like an awfully short message.  Why don't you try?:

# print messages which are tiny
:0w
*<500
{ LOG="`cat`
" }

Note: there is an intentional newline after the last backquote.  This includes
a newline in the log file, so things don't get run together.

> Thanks for any help!

Good luck!

> Cheers,
> Dale Kiefling
> Skywriter Hosting, LLC
> http://skywriterhosting.com
> 415 699-0421