On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:51:14AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
From: Chris Green <cgreen(_at_)x-1(_dot_)net>
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:-
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
Your SMTP server is rejecting the email because the domain isn't valid. If
you're feeling brave, set 501 as a spam indicator (in which case all email
from invalid domains will be deleted).
Thanks for the explanation. In the case that occurred just yesterday
it was a misconfiguration in the sender's mail set up, they had their
"Return-Path:" set tp "postmaster(_at_)uk", I'd already spotted that and
told them.
The fatchmail man page says "The fetchmail code recognizes and
discards the message on any of a list of responses that defaults to
[571, 550, 501, 554] but can....". I've not changed this so why
isn't the mail deleted?
Alternatively, tell your mail server to accept domains that don't resolve.
Not easy, I'm just a user here not the sysadmin.
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