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Re: [fetchmail]Help with warning: Illegal address syntax

2004-07-23 03:11:59
From: Gary Sims <gary(_at_)garysims(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>

I have now traced one of my problem messages with fetchmail -v -v and this is
what I get
<---SNIP--->
About to rewrite Return-Path:
<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000
Rewritten version is Return-Path:
<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000

That's very broken. Something strange is going on at your ISP. Either they're accepting malformed email or they're generating it. No sane mail server will accept that header.

About to rewrite From: "BBC daily email" <dailyemail(_at_)bbc(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Rewritten version is From: "BBC daily email" 
<dailyemail(_at_)bbc(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>

About to rewrite To: gary(_at_)garysims(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk
Rewritten version is To: gary(_at_)garysims(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk

fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL
FROM:<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived:
(qmail 22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03
-0000(_at_)mail(_dot_)rdslink(_dot_)ro> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=8568

That is from the Return-path header, which as I've already said is somewhat broken. That alone is enough to ensure the email is never accepted.

<---SNIP--->
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT
TO:<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000>
<---SNIP--->

That however I would expect to be from your .fetchmailrc, which from what you posted should be <gary(_at_)localhost>

Something strange is certainly going on. Can you confirm that you're running a vanilla version of fetchmail 6.2.5 from the fetchmail site with no patches applied? The output (with passwords mangled) of "fetchmail --configdump" would be useful.

Before this I removed the antispam option from my fetchmailrc file. However
the email is still being deleted even though it was not delivered or
non-delivered. Is that behaviour correct?

The email failed at the address syntax - it'll never be accepted so there's no reason to keep it.


 Please DO NOT send me ANY email directly unless it's a privacy issue.
      Reply-to mangled to assist those who don't read the above.
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