Mailing List Archive: missing email

missing email

Jun 15, 2016, 7:28 PM

Post #1 of 3 (1469 views)

Does anyone here experienced lost email? In maillog, it says the email
was delivered but it does not exist on the Mailbox. Here is the
maillog.

Jun 11 04:31:33 mail qmail: 1465590700.147543 starting delivery
1838070: msg 396169 to local alex@nelson.com
Jun 11 04:31:33 mail qmail: 1465590700.178944 delivery 1838070:
success: did_1+0+1/

My .qmail contains the following

[root@mail alex]# cat .qmail
| /var/qmail/bin/mail-quotacheck-20GB
./Maildir/

The mail-quotacheck script came from
https://www.pgregg.com/projects/qmail/mailquotacheck/. It is working
fine because if the user already in quota, you will see it in the
logs.

Hope someone can help.

TIA!

Re: missing email [ In reply to ]

pascal at nobus

Jun 15, 2016, 11:21 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1442 views)

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Over the years I have seen many questions from users similar to yours.
Always with the same outcome: the messages _was_ delivered, but always
retreived by pop/imap.

Most of the time the mail is in their mailbox, but on another location
then where they think it should be (strange date, local spamfilter), or
it has been retreived by another user/device.

Check the pop/imap-logs of that user and look for number retrieved mails.

Op 16-06-16 om 04:28 schreef Nelson:
> Does anyone here experienced lost email? In maillog, it says the email
> was delivered but it does not exist on the Mailbox. Here is the
> maillog.
>
> Jun 11 04:31:33 mail qmail: 1465590700.147543 starting delivery
> 1838070: msg 396169 to local alex@nelson.com
> Jun 11 04:31:33 mail qmail: 1465590700.178944 delivery 1838070:
> success: did_1+0+1/
>
> My .qmail contains the following
>
> [root@mail alex]# cat .qmail
> | /var/qmail/bin/mail-quotacheck-20GB
> ./Maildir/
>
> The mail-quotacheck script came from
> https://www.pgregg.com/projects/qmail/mailquotacheck/. It is working
> fine because if the user already in quota, you will see it in the
> logs.
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> TIA!
>

Re: missing email [ In reply to ]

ntserafica at gmail

Jun 17, 2016, 8:54 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1427 views)

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Pascal Nobus <pascal@nobus.be> wrote:
> Over the years I have seen many questions from users similar to yours.
> Always with the same outcome: the messages _was_ delivered, but always
> retreived by pop/imap.
>
> Most of the time the mail is in their mailbox, but on another location
> then where they think it should be (strange date, local spamfilter), or
> it has been retreived by another user/device.
>
>
> Check the pop/imap-logs of that user and look for number retrieved mails.

User is using imap so emails are on the server. I will try to disable
the maillquotacheck script. Current size of mailbox is 6GB.