From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28221 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Hilborne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: missing POP3 mail Date: 14 Dec 1999 17:44:39 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <99Dec14.120926est.115246@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165109 28771 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:51:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15893 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:45:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB27032; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:45:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:45:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08624 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:45:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sapphire.noc.gxn.net (sapphire.noc.gxn.net [194.143.161.5]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15877 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:44:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amh by sapphire.noc.gxn.net with local (Exim 2.05 #2) id 11xw07-0001A7-00; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:44:39 +0000 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:03:11 -0500" Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Acadia) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28221 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28221 Stainless Steel Rat 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