I occasionally get some E-Mail on my Demon (UK ISP) account which
causes fetchamil to produce the following errors when it tries to
collect it:-
fetchmail: mail from FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(_at_)localhost bounced to
nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail
fetchmail: can't even send to chris!
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.demon.co.uk
This only happens with maybe one message in a hundred or so, it's
always junk mail too. I can fix the problem by deleting the offending
message using Demon's Web mail.
Is this a known problem in fetchmail, would a newer version fix it?
I'm running fetchmail 5.4, the full sequence of the problem as
reported by 'fetchmail -v' is:-
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail> SIZE=14810
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<chris(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 5.1.8 <chris(_at_)localhost>... Domain of sender address
nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail does not exist
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address `chris(_at_)localhost'
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 halkidiki.areti.com ESMTP Sendmail
8.11.1/8.11.1/Areti-3.0.0; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:26:46 GMT
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 halkidiki.areti.com Hello chris(_at_)localhost
[127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(_at_)localhost>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body)
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 g0V9Qk932327 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 halkidiki.areti.com closing connection
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<chris(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 5.1.8 <chris(_at_)localhost>... Domain of sender address
nomail(_at_)nomail(_dot_)nomail does not exist
fetchmail: can't even send to chris!
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>()HSABS</TITLE>
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.demon.co.uk
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
Can I get fetchmail to do *something* with the offending message
rather than just repeatedly failing?
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Chris Green (chris(_at_)areti(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk)
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