I have also this problem, but for the most of the time, the mails that disappear
are spam, which for some reason got past the spam filter I have installed at
my ISP. Every now and then, a real mail disappears, and it's quite embarrasing
telling these people to resend, because my mail program ate their mail because
the sender used a lame mailing software (which is mostly windoze programs).
The reason that makes the mail disappear is that MD-II already finds another
(spam, or something) with the same message-ID, and thinks that it already have
that mail. The mail is never downloaded, just deleted from the server, so there
is no way telling if it was an important message or not.
Maybe MD should do a bit better dupe-checking than just relying on the
Message-ID.. Like checking the Date: header or something similar, and if the ID
is already in the db, maybe add something that makes the new mail's ID unique
(timestamp) to the new mail header..
Or, another option would be to have a "keep duplicates at server" setting, or
"disable dupe checking" (but that will probably not work by just adding it, for
some reason I think MD-II do only want one message with a specific ID)..
Even when turning off the "delete from server", you won't get the messages that
are considered duplicates, and not by importing the mail either..
This requires probably a 5-minute fix for those who know the source code
(Olliiiiiiii, pleeeeeeeeease fix it ! :) )...
/PeO
>
> Has anyone comes across this: infrequently, while monitoring my
> mail lists e-mail downloads, I see an e-mail or two that looks
> particularly interesting; but after the download is completed the
> mails are nowhere to be found. I have filtering setup, so that the
> mails are put into their corresponding mail list folders. Is there a
> filter bug that is sending some e-mails to oblivion?
>
> This happens rarely, but I have noticed it several times over the
> months. A search of the database never turns up the errant e-mail. I
> use MDII 1.4.4.
>
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