I am truly at the end of my tether, having spent the last 4 hours searching
the net/faqs/list archives for an answer, and getting close, but never quite
to the right answer.
I have a fetchmail/sendmail system taking mail from my ISP, and dropping
it into multiple mailboxes. All is fine when the destination address is
correct.
However, when a bad address is given in the To: field, sendmail throws
a 550 error, and fetchmail does not flush the message from the server.
Therefore I then receive it again next time I poll. And again.. and again!
It happily sends the error out to my postmaster, but seems to then forget
that it has viewed the message.
I have tried every combination of antispam, no bounce, keep, nokeep
etc.etc. to no avail. Can anyone please suggest the magic combination?
My current attempt at fetchmail.cf...
set syslog
set no spambounce
set daemon 60
poll pop3.demon.co.uk timeout 59
proto pop3 aka mailstore
localdomains mini.demon.co.uk
user mini with pass "******" is *
antispam 451,550,250
and fetchmail -V returns...
This is fetchmail release 5.9.11+SSL+NLS
Linux zippy 2.4.18 #12 Fri May 31 01:40:49 PDT 2002 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line
No mailservers set up -- perhaps /root/.fetchmailrc is missing?
Thanks in advance,
Stu Carter