From: Dan Callaghan <djc@djc.id.au>
To: supmua <supmua@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [sup] Sup Autogenerated Fake Sender
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:30:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1594355314-sup-4118@sage.djc.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1594321619-sup-1430@ceres>
Excerpts from Iain Parris's message of 2020-07-09 20:15:46 +01:00:
> Excerpts from Robert Winkler's message of 2020-07-09 14:01:01 -0500:
> > Using "V" the mails seem to be completely empty. Well I suppose,
> > they come from messages that did not arrive (at least 2; but in both
> > cases they were important enough that I was "reminded" ;-)).
>
> That's odd. Are the mail files empty (zero byte files) in your Maildir?
> You could try to identify empty files with something like:
>
> find ~/Mail -size 0
>
> The root cause, though, is the malformed email files, rather than a bug
> in Sup.
I have seen this happen when I misconfigured my .procmailrc causing
procmail to open the destination file in the maildir but then fail to
process the mail and discard it (thus leaving a 0 byte file behind).
I guess more generally, any error inside your MDA could be causing this.
--
Dan Callaghan <djc@djc.id.au>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 16:50 Robert Winkler
2020-07-09 17:59 ` [sup] " Iain Parris
2020-07-09 19:01 ` Robert Winkler
2020-07-09 19:15 ` Iain Parris
2020-07-10 4:30 ` Dan Callaghan [this message]
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