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Re: Fetchmail Query



On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:54:24PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> 
> > I'm experiencing a minor issue with fetchmail 6.2.4.
> > There is one message in my mailbox at my ISP that fetchmail sees but won't delete or anything.
> > When it goes to retrieve this message, it has an NDR message: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address admin@cheapsoftwarecds.us does not resolve.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this error message comes from your MTA side e.g. in my case sendmail. In
> cf.README you find:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily)
> rejected with a 451 reply code.  If those domains should be accepted
> (which is discouraged) then you can use
> 
> 	LOCAL_CONFIG
> 	C{ResOk}TEMP
> 
> sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not
> fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user).  If you
> want to continue to accept such senders, use

You can also tell fetchmail to use a different mda for a single session
to pipe it through a procmail for those troublesome messages.  Something
like:
	fetchmail --mda /usr/bin/procmail
IIRC

Check the fetchmail info for exact syntax and warnings about
restrictions on the MDA.

HTH

-- 
Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
Linux --- The best things in life are free!



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