Rob MacGregor <rob(_dot_)macgregor(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> writes:
The answer is - fetchmail is doing what it is told. The "problem"
lies with your QMail config. Either change it to direct misaddressed
email to "tata" or change it to tell fetchmail when the account
doesn't exist.
qmail's inbound daemons (qmail-smtp, qmail-qmtp, qmail-qmqp,
qmail-queue, qmail-inject, sendmail) have no means of knowing that the
account does not exist. There are third-party patches that can achieve
this but they need extra maintenance.
The workaround is to let qmail handle the catchall handling, for example
to configure the _right_ catchall in qmail, one might use:
echo '&tata' >~alias/.qmail-default
and to leave fetchmail alone.
The real fix is to do away with decrepit qmail.
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Matthias Andree