Re: missing POP3 mail

[Andrew Hilborne <andrew.hilborne@gxn.net>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> | Yesterday during the normal POP3 collection run this message was
> | reproduced by the fetchmail process in the minibuffer, and I was asked if
> | I wished to continue or not (yes/no.) I don't know what I typed, but I
> | then lost POP3 mail, and some other mail which had not come through POP3
> | wasn't registered properly in the appropriate NOV database. I use
> | fancy-split. The missing POP3 mail wasn't in the Incoming.* files. In
> | fact I have lost it permanently :-(
> 
> What do you mean by "lost"?  If pop3 cannot open the drop because it is
> locked, it cannot do anything at all to the drop.  If you continue, it
> tells Gnus to skip that method, so again there is nothing being done on
> your end as far as the POP server is concerned.  Are you *sure* the mail is
> not still sitting on the server somewhere?

It is lost: the POP3 box is empty:

    $ telnet pop3.isp.net 110
    Trying 1.2.3.4...
    Connected to pop3.isp.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    +OK QPOP (version 2.52) at pop3.isp.net starting.  
    user me
    +OK Password required for me.
    pass somepass
    +OK me has 0 messages (0 octets).
    quit
    +OK Pop server at pops3.isp.net signing off.
    Connection closed by foreign host.
    $

I have the list of message-ids for mail which was delivered to the box in the
relevant time interval, from the box administrators. Most of these have not
been delivered to me.

--
Andrew Hilborne