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Hi a-s-k-users,

usually things seem to run smoothly,
but yesterday I lost an (important!) email.

Before I don't know the circumstances I can't sleep well ...

Maybe you could give me tip why and how to prevent further loss of mail?
Thanks in advance for your time!

I use fetchmail (5.9.11+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS),
      exim (v3.35-1woody2),
      procmail (v3.22) and
      ASK (v2.41 .deb).
http://www.paganini.net/ask/docs/ask_doc.html was used for the
configuration. (details below)


According to /var/log/exim/mainlog the email came in:
# 2004-02-17 09:45:44 1At0rP-0008E6-00 <= [email protected] H=localhost
[127.0.0.1] U=root P=esmtp S=8621 id=000801c3f531$e4447480$0206a8c0@darkangel

and exim gave it to the procmail_pipe
# 2004-02-17 09:46:03 1At0rP-0008E6-00 => me <me@localhost> D=procmail
T=procmail_pipe
# 2004-02-17 09:46:03 1At0rP-0008E6-00 Completed



My .procmailrc is setup according to (2.3.4 Procmail Users), starting ASK.

[email protected] is white-listed,
so ask.py delivers the message to stdout (according to ~/ask.log):
# 2004/02/17 09:46:00 [31642]: ----- ASK v2.4.1 Started -----
# [...]
# 2004/02/17 09:46:02 [31642]:   deliver_mail(): Message delivered to stdout
# 2004/02/17 09:53:07 [31663]: ----- ASK v2.4.1 Started -----


And ~/Mail/.procmaillog says:
# From [email protected] Tue Feb 17 09:45:45 2004
#  Subject: Fw: xyz
#  Folder: /var/mail/me                  8846


As I'm a bit paranoid, my ask-error-catching procmail-rule safes to a file.
But the lost email is neither there nor in the regular mailfolders.


[setup-details:]

I setup things according to the "Install and Configuration"-docs,
(2.3.2) "Alternative Exim Installation":

The "ask" parts were ordered _above_ the procmail ones.

That way "confirmation"-message were sent out,
but procmail wasn't involved so my mailinglists all went to
/var/mail/me

In the first time I *missed* (2.3.4) "Procmail Users",
so I changed the order:
   1. procmail
   2. ask

Result: procmail did work,
        ask      did not.

Then I read (2.3.4), added the two procmail-rules and things ran smoothly.

Do you have a clue what happened to this email?
If I left out any details, please ask and I'll provide it.

Once again thanks for your time.


Regards,
Thomas
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