Re: Fetchmail Query

From: Peter A. Cole (peteracole_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:16:24 +1000
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    On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:54:24 +0100
    Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> wrote:

    >
    > 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
    >
    > FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')
    >
    > [...]

    Hmm, thanks Oliver, this is more than likely where I need to be heading I think. Obviously, I did the Google search, but not the mandatory man stuff :-)

    Do you think it's safe to enable this feature? In relation to this particular email I know it will be rejected by mimedefang anyway, so I guess it's the only real way to get the message out of my ISP's mailbox and rejected by mimedefang.

    >
    > In man fetchmail you find:
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES
    > The protocols fetchmail uses to talk to mailservers are next to bulletproof. In normal operation forwarding
    > to port 25, no message is ever deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the host until the SMTP listener on
    > the client side has acknowledged to fetchmail that the message has been either accepted for delivery or
    > rejected due to a spam block.
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > To avoid fetchnmail from keeping this spam in your ISP's email account
    > add this feature to your sendmail.mc and recreate it.
    >
    > Oliver

    All makes sense to me now. Thanks for that. I need to learn some more about all these services I'm using, then I mightn't need to ask stupid questions in future :-)

    Pete 

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