Re: fetchmail bad

[Rick Rezinas <rick@beerdrinker.org>]

Hello,

well, got the sendmail to not strip out nonexistant hosts, but teh 
fetchmail is still weird.

here is the ersult of fetchmail -V:
This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS
Linux fry 2.4.1 #1 Sun Feb 4 22:27:22 PST 2001 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /home/rmr/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /home/rmr/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to rmr.
Options for retrieving from rmr@beerdrinker.org@mahiai.aloha.net:
  True name of server is mahiai.aloha.net.
  Protocol is POP3.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.

thanks,
rick

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote:
> > I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail.  The problem 
> > that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does
> > not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault.
> 
> Which version of fetchmail?
> 
> Segfaults are *always* a bug, but if you're not running the newest fetchmail
> (5.6.7 or 5.6.8), there's a good chance it is one of the MANY segfaults
> fixed since the version in testing and stable...
> 
> -- 
>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh