Re: Help interpreting logfile messages, please

On 11/20/12 20:25 -0600, Ken Johnson wrote:
>
>These are typical logfile messages from a user who is unable to retrieve
>mail.  It might help me solve the problem if I knew the meaning of the
>various nmsgs/ndele/nseen counts.  Guessing seems inappropriate. (local user
>and server names changed).  Id string from ipop3d: '2007e'.
>
>Nov 10 00:37:41 msvr ipop3d[13146]: Login user=pat
>host=mail-xxx-yyy.google.com [209.85.xx.xx] nmsgs=20305/22171
>Nov 10 00:37:42 msvr ipop3d[13146]: Update user=pat
>host=mail-xxx-yyy.google.com [209.85.xx.xx] nmsgs=22171 ndele=0 nseen=0
>Nov 10 00:37:42 msvr ipop3d[13146]: Logout user=pat
>host=mail-xxx-yyy.google.com [209.85.xx.xx]
>
>In other background on the problem, 'grep "^From " /user/mail/pat | wc'
>gives a line count in the 200s.  'mutt -f /user/mail/copy_of_pat' parses the
>file without difficulty, and shows the 200-some messages.
>
>I would like to figure out how to get as many as possible of these 200-some
>messages delivered to the user through their preferred mail-reading system
>(gmail).  So far it seems that if any message from that troublesome set is
>in the mail spool file, things go badly as described above.

If your ultimate goal is to transfer the files to gmail, and you can open
the spool in mutt, then you should be able to tag-all, and copy the
messages to gmail via imap.

-- 
Dan White
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