Re: [Ifile-discuss] Where have my emails gone? :(

[Brett Nemeroff]

Hi all,
I had this problem a while ago and just now getting around to following up
on it. These are the error messages that I get when I run refile.learn:

refile.learn output:
procmail: Error while writing to " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message $MATCH
$FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
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$FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
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$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
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procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Error while writing to " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message $MATCH
$FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Error while writing to " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message $MATCH
$FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"
procmail: Program failure (255) of " $HOME/bin/ifile.relearn.message
$MATCH $FOLDER 2>/dev/null"

Stuff appears to be refiled.. that is, the corpus is growing in size and
my headers appear to be updated. Does anyone have any ideas? What other
debuging info can I provide to assist troubleshoot this problem?
Thanks!
-Brett



> * Brett Nemeroff <address@hidden> [030321 18:23]:
>> So I'm noticing more problems with scripts from Jack Bertram and
>> Martin Macok on my system. :(
>
> Oh dear! I hope we can help.  This isn't really an ifile issue so much
> as an implementation issue, but no doubt people will tell us to take it
> off list if it becomes irritating.
>
>> So I was getting those cron reports before, now I've noticed that I'm
>> also losing emails altogether! seems that they are missing in the
>> .backupmail folder too (however it seems to be less incomplete).
>
> Ok.  Do they get delivered in the first place, or are you losing them
> through the first process of procmail?  I'm guessing that they're being
> lost when you run refile.learn?  If so, you have definite problems.
>
>> So I notice that in the refile.learn script that we check to see if
>> there is a Learned to flag. If there is, we move it to a newly created
>> folder ($FOLDER.new). I'm not entirely sure what goes on after that.
>> Why is the $FOLDER.new part necessary?
>
> Well, basically what happens is this:
>
> - refile.learn copies the mailbox to .backupmail
> - it calls procmail and feeds it the individual messages from the
>   mailbox using formail
> - procmail then has to "deliver" these messages to a different mailbox -
>   - it checks to see if it was originally classified correctly; if so,
>     just deliver it
>   - if it was originally misclassified, but has already been relearned
>     then it just delivers it
>   - otherwise, it relearns it, adds a header to note this, and then
>     delivers it
> - in all cases, procmail is delivering this message to a new mailbox
>   $FOLDER.new, which will end up with a copy of every message which was
> in the old folder, but with some of them with extra headers
> - then, if there's any change between new mailbox and the old one,
>   refile.learn copies the new one over the old one
>
> Hence $FOLDER.new replaces $FOLDER
>
> I suggest that you do the following:
>
> - Don't put refile.learn back in your crontab
> - Wait until you know you've had to move some emails
> - Manually back up your mail spool
> - Manually run refile.learn
> - Check for differences with what you'd expect
>
> It does seem like the problems are caused by procmail rather than the
> ifile scripts.  It would be great if you could give some really detailed
> debugging errors from following the above procedure, and then I'd be
> able to make some more (hopefully) useful suggestions.
>
> cheers,
> jack
>
>
>>
>> Any ideas what might be causing my emails to be deleted? I've turned
>> off the cron job to prevent it from happening anymore; but is there
>> any other way to get it all to work?
>>
>> BTW, I would have replied to my previous posts to keep it part of the
>> thread, and I would have liked to included my cron output, but all of
>> those emails have been subject to this mysterious event. :-/
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!!,
>> Brett
>>
>>
>>
>>
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