Possible missing mail

[beowabbit]

For reasons I have not yet sussed out, I seem to have lost a few hours worth of incoming mail. (It’s the sort of thing that happens when the home directory partition on my server is full, but it wasn’t.) So in the unlikely event that you sent me mail between about 2:00am and 9:00am today, I didn’t get it. The problem, whatever it was, resolved

Comments

[darxus]

If an email doesn't go through because the receiving server is having problems, the sending server should queue it and try again, for something like 5 days, shouldn't it?

[beowabbit]

Yes, but procmail reported failing to deliver the messages to my home directory and successfully delivering them to /var/mail/js, and /var/mail/js was empty. So I’m not sure exactly what happened.