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[fetchmail]Fetchmail refuses to deliver occasional junk mail messsages

2002-04-26 00:53:44
Every so often I get a piece of junk mail which gets permanently stuck
on the POP3 server because fetchamil refuses to collect it, it
produces error messages as follows:-
                                    
    3 messages for chris(_at_)isbd at pop3.demon.co.uk (196246 octets).
    reading message 1 of 3 (6217 octets) fetchmail: mail from     
FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(_at_)localhost bounced to postmaster(_at_)uk
    fetchmail: can't even send to chris!
    fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.demon.co.uk
    fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)


If I do 'fetchmail -v' then I get:-

    reading message 2 of 3 (1260 octets)
    fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<postmaster(_at_)uk> SIZE=1260
    fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <postmaster(_at_)uk>... Sender ok
    fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<chris(_at_)localhost>             
    fetchmail: SMTP< 501 5.1.8 <chris(_at_)localhost>... Domain of sender 
address
postmaster(_at_)uk 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, 25 Apr 2002 12:36:34 +0100
    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:<postmaster(_at_)uk>
    fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <postmaster(_at_)uk>... 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 g3PBaYm04102 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
postmaster(_at_)uk 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< Hello,
    fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.demon.co.uk
    fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)



Can anyone explain what's going on and, more to the point, somehow
that I can get fetchmail to continue successfully and preferably get
rid of the offending mail?  At present I have to use Demon's Web mail
interface to delete the offending message.

-- 
Chris Green (cgreen(_at_)x-1(_dot_)net)
  Home: chris(_at_)isbd(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk            Work: 
cgreen(_at_)bcs(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk
  WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/