[Wylug-help] IMAP problem

[Stephen Patterson]

On 16 Sep 08, Anne Wilson (cannewilson at googlemail.com) wrote:
> I'm reduced to working on Googlemail - thank heavens I set gmail to
> keep copies of mail.  Sometime yesterday I stopped receiving mail - I
> was busy at the time so didn't notice for hours.
> 
> My system is fetchmail (running as a cron), procmail, dovecot, kmail
> (I also have thunderbird).  Most, though not all, of my mail goes
> through gmail.  I have tried to test the separate sections, but the
> only thing I can come up with is that running 'fetchmail -a' manually
> returns to a prompt, without any notices of mailboxes checked.  That
> is surely wrong.

Try 'fetchmail -v', that'll give you plenty of debug information
 
> At the same time, reading mail on Horde on zen.co.uk suggests that
> mail must be fetched, since there is none on the server.
> 
> The procmail log file seems to stop abruptly, but that's showing a
> modified time-stamp of  28th August, which is ridiculous since I was
> reading mail yesterday morning. That file is still set as the logfile
> in .procmailrc.  Perms are
> 
> -rw------- 1 anne anne 6025 Sep 12 20:27 .procmailrc

I'd suggest a few settings in procmailrc for debugging
LOG='---- '
VERBOSE=on


> /var/log/maillog ends with
> 
> Sep 16 11:05:01 borg2 postfix/local[6626]: A98D916FC8C:
> to=<anne at lydgate.net>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0.08,
> delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command:
> /usr/bin/procmail)
> Sep 16 11:05:01 borg2 postfix/qmgr[2860]: A98D916FC8C: removed
> 
> The indications appear to point to procmail, but in the past the only
> two scenarios I've met are incorrect permissions on .procmailrc, which
> doesn't seem to be the case, and an incorrect recipe causing procmail
> to fail.  In that case an mbox file is usually created in Maildir
> containing the lost mail.  No such file exists.
> 
> I'm totally lost on what else to check.
> 
> Anne
> 
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