Re: movemail: looses messages if connection broken

On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 10:58:18AM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Jean,
> 
> > I have experienced following before some time:
> > 
> > movemail: number of messages in source mailbox: 5
> > movemail: number of processed messages: 5
> > movemail: number of errors: 0 / 0
> [...]
> > 0 kept, 5 deleted.
> 
> What's this? None of mailutils code produces such message.

That message above? It is movmail.

> > The operation of movemail shall be changed so that unless all messages
> > are in local inbox, the remote shall not be deleted.
> 
> That's the way it operates now.  Quoting the source (with additional
> annotations for clarity):
> 
> // Synchronize destination mailbox with the disk and close it   
>    968    mu_mailbox_sync (dest);
>    969    rc = mu_mailbox_close (dest);
>    970    mu_mailbox_destroy (&dest);   
>    971    if (rc)
>    972      mu_error (_("cannot close destination mailbox: %s"), mu_strerror (rc));
>    973    else if (!preserve_mail)
> // Delete messages from the source mailbox   
>    974      mu_mailbox_expunge (source);
> // Close the source mailbox
>    975    mu_mailbox_close (source);
>    976    mu_mailbox_destroy (&source);
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

Well thank you. I still lost 5 messages, cannot know the reason.

Jean Louis