On Mar 7 15:58, ScruLoose wrote: > 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? > According to fetchmail's man page is should detect 501 as spam rejection and bounce the mail back to the sender and discard the message. As a quick kludge you could try using the --bsmtp with fetchmail to write the message to a file. You can then just delete the file (after checking there are no wanted messages in there of course). Alternatively you could edit the file fixing the problem line and use Exim's -bS option to read the file from stdin. However maybe someone else knows how to get fetchmail to do something sensible with it in the first place ... -- Jason Chambers (chambersj@chambersj.dyndns.org) Leicester, England Registered Linux User #271693 (http://counter.li.org)
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