Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

[Michael Epting <epting@ix.netcom.com>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:25:36AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> Michael Epting wrote:
> >I'm seeing stuff like this in my fetchmail log:
> >           octets) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 
> >           <bounce-debian-user=@lists.debian.org>: 
> >           malformed address: @[]> may not follow 
> >           <bounce-debian-user=@lists.debian.org-
> >fetchmail:  not flushed
> 
> I am seeing it too[though it didn't actually create a logjam, other 
> messages were still being fetched, just all the list mail wasn't cause 
> it all had these bad headers]  I now have a procmail recipe that is 
> essentially:
> 
> :0fw
> | sed -e 's$lists.debian.org-@\[\]$lists.debian.org$g'
> 
> which fixes the messages enough so that fetchmail doesn't barf, but that 
> is of course a gross hack.

Ironically, your reply also had the header problem (on "Return-Path:).

I don't have procmail installed -- up till now I never saw a need
because exim is sorting my mail into proper inboxes for me.  So do you
suppose that fetchmail is broken?

-- 
Michael Epting (epting@ix.netcom.com)