Re: fetchmail not fetchaing spam

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, houghi wrote:-

David Bolt wrote:

How did That's not good.
^
There's supposed to be a few more words here, namely "that get there?"

I know. Others will be interested in how it should look. I am aware of
that already. ;-)

I know. :-)

And here's the log entry produced by your local server doing the Right
Thing (TM) and rejecting the broken mail sender address.

Yes and no. What if I WANT to recieve it?

You ask the sender to fix their set-up and send it again?

Could I edit postfix that way
that it accepts enything from localhost?

That could break Postfix, and I don't know if it's actually possible. A
better place to ask would probably be comp.mail.postfix, although they'd
possibly just tell you to tell your mail host that their server is
broken.

I don't know about using fetchmail to retrieve it. Your local server is
correctly rejecting the mail as the return path should be valid but, for
this mail, it isn't. Unfortunately, because they are rejected, fetchmail
doesn't mark them as received and so they sit there "forever", or until
you either manually delete the bad mail, or your host deletes them.

And that is my problem.

Let me guess, they're accepting more of these broken mails and it's
slowly building up?

As a temporary measure, what you could do with is something that will
log in to the mailbox, delete the bad mails and then let fetchmail do
its job.

That is what I do now, but that is not an option.

I was actually thinking about a script to do the job rather than doing
it manually, as I guess you're doing right now. That could be your only
option.

What you could really do with is for your mail host to fix their
server(s) so it/they reject such obviously bad mail.

As that is out of my hands, I would love to see if there is an option on
my side.

Doesn't stop you pointing out that their server is configured wrong and
that it's causing some minor inconvenience to their customer :)


Regards,
David Bolt

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