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Re: messages that jam mail readers



> 
> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote:
> 
> > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail?  Could someone who
> > > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me?
> > 
> > Of course I forgot to write down the error message, but I also had problems 
> > getting fetchmail to get three messages  (they were all from the same person). 
> > The error message was something like:
> > 
> > SMTP error: hostname must resolve
> > 
> > and it promptly refused to fetch any mail. 
> 
> I don't know if it's the same thing.  Mine didn't bother to give me an
> error message.  Fetchmail just sat there in the middle of retrieving
> the message like time was frozen.  After waiting long enough to be quite
> sure it wasn't going to continue, I hit Control C to get out of it.
> 

I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail.  The
problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it.  What
is happening is that you're receiving email from either spoofed addresses
which can't be resolved by your DNS server, or from site(s) on the net which
are currently unreachable (which was my case).  If it's the latter, wait
a while (maybe up to several days), until the net problem is resolved.

Taren


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