[gentoo-user] Losing emails

[gentoo-user] Losing emails

[Peter Humphrey]

Greetings,

You may remember my mentioning a fly in the ointment recently. Well, today I 
went to post a follow-up, only to find that the message had disappeared from my 
client, which is KMail. Perhaps I didn't actually send that mail, I thought, 
so I checked the archive and there it was.

KMail runs on this PC (an Intel i5 NUC) and fetches IMAP mail from my LAN 
server (an Intel i3 NUC) which runs fetchmail, postfix and dovecot. I had to 
set this service up because KMail is hopeless with POP3 and Zen, my ISP, 
doesn't offer IMAP4.

The process goes like this on the server:

1.  Fetchmail runs every 5 minutes, fetches POP3 mail from Zen and sends it to 
postfix (Zen's server then deletes the mail).
2.  Postfix drops the mail in ~/.maildir for dovecot to serve to my client 
KMail.
3.  Rsync runs every 20 seconds and synchronises ~/.maildir to a separate 
partition on /mnt/mailbu. The crontab entry is:
*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/rsync -a --open-noatime /home/prh/.maildir/ /mnt/mailbu

The odd thing is that the offending email is present both in ~/.maildir and in 
/mnt/mailbu, so why is kmail not displaying it, or dovecot not serving it? How 
can I tell which it is? I haven't changed dovecot.conf since mid-February.

I've run 'akonadictl fdisk' and 'akonadictl vacuum' but with no apparent 
effect. I could try the sledge-hammer method and emerge -e, I suppose.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing emails

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 9 October 2024 15:41:16 BST I wrote:

> You may remember my mentioning a fly in the ointment recently. Well, today I
> went to post a follow-up, only to find that the message had disappeared
> from my client, which is KMail. Perhaps I didn't actually send that mail, I
> thought, so I checked the archive and there it was.

Of course the next thing I tried revealed the problem. KMail was not losing 
the email; its search function was just failing to find it.

Sorry about the noise.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing emails

[William Kenworthy]

Check the permissions on the email in .maildir.  I am using imap and 
very occasionally Thunderbird wont display an email  as the permissions 
were not set correctly for some reason. (glitch? on download)

BillK


On 9/10/24 22:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 9 October 2024 15:41:16 BST I wrote:
>
>> You may remember my mentioning a fly in the ointment recently. Well, today I
>> went to post a follow-up, only to find that the message had disappeared
>> from my client, which is KMail. Perhaps I didn't actually send that mail, I
>> thought, so I checked the archive and there it was.
> Of course the next thing I tried revealed the problem. KMail was not losing
> the email; its search function was just failing to find it.
>
> Sorry about the noise.
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing emails

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 10 October 2024 00:34:12 BST William Kenworthy wrote:
> Check the permissions on the email in .maildir.  I am using imap and
> very occasionally Thunderbird wont display an email  as the permissions
> were not set correctly for some reason. (glitch? on download)

Thanks Bill, but the fault was mine all along.

[OT]
A word of advice, if I may: if any member of one's family has glaucoma, be 
sure to get yourself checked for it regularly. It is not to be sneezed at.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.