Re: fetchmail not fetchaing spam

David Bolt wrote:


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?"

So how did those NOT get there. ;-)

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

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

That woudl be me, or better fetchmail that delivers it to postfix.

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.

yes, it is. That is the reason I was looking if fetchmail could do
anything.

And that is my problem.

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

Not yet, but I am sure it will in the future. At this moment I only have
recieved 5 of those kind of mails over a 3 day period.

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.

I could pipe the logfile. The risk of loosing emails that way however is
pretty big.
fetchmail tries to retrieve the mail and generates an error
I set up a telnet and do a `dele 1` on port 110
Somehow the mauil is not the first mail anymore.

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 :)

I know, I just first want to find a solution on my side. That way when
they solve it, I had time to test the solution on my side. That way I
would have learned something.

houghi
--
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The
theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit
of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. -- Heinlein
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