Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:15:08AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
>
> No, I reckon the debian list software is broken, it is sending out mail
> without a valid From/Return-Path address. Also, I am not positive that
> it is fetchmail that is barfing, it may be that exim is refusing to
> deliver the mail. Also, just in case it wasn't clear, it won't do you
> any good to install procmail on your box, procmail would need to be
> installed on the box you are fetching from to be useful in this case.
Well, I dropped back one revision (from my /var/cache/apt/archive) for
both fetchmail and exim and the problem remains. It's a terrible
problem because when fetchmail is unable to flush it does not fetch
any more messages. When one is subscribed to a handful of Debian
lists, it doesn't take long for the backlog of stuck messages to reach
hundreds, and then I have to read and delete them all in Mozilla.
It may well be a problem with the Debian list software, but it sure
seems that exim/fetchmail ought to be able to better deal with it. I
suspect my configuration is also somehow not optimum.
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Michael Epting (epting@ix.netcom.com)
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