Re: Fetchmail changes?
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> I had a disasterous update to my main server last weeked - in that I tried to
> do a testing upgrade and found that many of my applications would no longer
> work
>
> I restored some things via a backup, but during the week I have noticed a
> problem
>
> Using kmail, if I get some spam mail, I hit control B which is supposed to
> send a bounce message back to the sender. This pops up a warning dialog with
> the mail address of who it is going to send the bounce message to.
>
> All of a sudden last week I noticed that hitting control B was no longer
> giving mail address of where the message had originally come from, but was
> instead reporting that it would try and bounce the message to
> fetchmail@chandlerfamily.org.uk. Looking at the headers of the message I am
> trying to about does indeed have
>
> Return-path: <fetchmail@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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> at the top
>
>
> My question - when did this change take place - is it an update to debian
> /etc/init.d/fetchmail - which seems to now set the user id to "fetchmail"
> before running the daemon (did it do this before?) or fetchmail itself?
>
The Return-path on my system looks O.K.
Does the fetchmail@chandlerfamily.org.uk Return-path appears on non
spam messages too?
As far as I can tell, fetchmail works according to /etc/fetchmailrc and
/etc/default/fetchmail. Could it be that those config files tell
fetchmail to rewrite the mail headers? Maybe the MDA is somehow
involved in this headers rewrite?
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> Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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