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Re: recurring error in exim's log



On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:46:17PM +0000, Jason Chambers wrote:
> 
> The "unqualified recipient rejected" is caused by mail
> being sent to fetchmail without a domain.  To allow Exim to
> accept an unqualified recipient address add
> "receiver_unqualified_hosts = localhost" to Exim's config
> file.  You may also want to add an alias for fetchmail to
> /etc/aliases as well, so you don't have to go looking for
> the mail.
Okay, that's done, and it worked.  I would have thought that the
"receiver_unqualified_hosts = localhost" bit would be implicit... but I
guess not. 

> Then you will be able to read the error message that
> fetchmail is sending which should give more info about the
> "SMTP command timeout error".

So yeah... now I'm receiving fetchmail's error message in my inbox every 5
minutes.
it kinda looks to me like some spammer munged his headers so badly that
it's screwing things up for delivery.  However, "General SMTP/ESMTP error."
doesn't tell me much about just what's wrong or what to *do* about it.
Since it's obviously just some spam, I don't care whether the message gets
delivered or just deleted.
Any suggestions?

Here is the full text of fetchmail's message:

From: FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@miguel
To: fetchmail@miguel

[-- Attachment #1 --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.1K --]

General SMTP/ESMTP error.


[-- Attachment #2 --]
[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]

Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost

Final-Recipient: rfc822; chris@localhost
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:38:07 -0500 (EST)
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: 501
+<Received:fromunknown@pop.eastlink.cabyasy100.as122.sol.superonline.comwithNNFM+P;Feb>: 
"@" or "." expected after "Received"

[-- Attachment #3 --]
[-- Type: text/rfc822-headers, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 1.1K --]

Received: from mx2.eastlink.ca ([10.10.10.24])
 by ms1.eastlink.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.03 (built Oct  1
 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HB10080CNXRIK@ms1.eastlink.ca> for
 scruloose@ims-ms-daemon; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:27:27 -0400 (AST)
Received: from 218.75.181.134 ([212.68.194.20])
 by mx2.eastlink.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.05 (built Nov  6
 2002)) with SMTP id <0HB100DOSNX8PH@mx2.eastlink.ca> for
scruloose@eastlink.ca
 (ORCPT scruloose@eastlink.ca); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:27:27 -0400 (AST)
Received: from unknown (26.113.85.29) by smtp4.cyberec.com with esmtp; Feb,
 28 2003 5:19:51 PM -0700
Received: from unknown (164.203.204.135) by a231242.upc-a.chello.nl with
SMTP;
 Feb, 28 2003 4:12:59 PM +0400
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:27:21 -0600
From: Casino_Online_603 <Casino_Online_475@alltel.net>
Subject: Make $7500 A Month Or It's FREE!!!.......... hvrnj
Sender: Casino_Online_603 <Casino_Online_475@alltel.net>
To: scruloose@eastlink.ca
Message-id: <0HB100DP8NXLPH@mx2.eastlink.ca>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Original-recipient: rfc822;scruloose@eastlink.ca

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