On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I'm having increasingly frequent problems with fetchmail choking on
| invalid email headers.
Are you sure _fetchmail_ is the one choking? It seems rather common
lately for people to have exim's header verification turned on while
using fetchmail to pass messages to it. This results in _exim_
rejecting the mesasge (as it was told to), but the outcome isn't
really what you wanted. Double check by running fetchmail in verbose
mode the next time you get a message with malformed headers.
This feature of exim is only suitable for an environment where
arbitrary clients on the Internet will connect directly to exim. In
that environment, exim will simply not accept garbage and leave the
sender to deal with it.
You're using exim 3. Look for the setting
headers_check_syntax = yes
in your exim.conf.
HTH,
-D
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