On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Barsalou wrote:
I have been getting these messages which I believe are "Host unknown"
errors from sendmail. After some bit of research, I have decided that
all of these (although all is a strong word) entries are SPAM. My
solution to this was to write this script called spamstop:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/sendmail $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
Just use "$@" unless you have an ancient shell that wants something
else.
if [ $? == 65 ] ; then
exit 0
fi
exit $?
This is bogus. 1. POSIX shells don't have ==, use = instead.
2. The if [ ... spoils $?.
Try something like
#! /bin/sh
/usr/sbin/sendmail "$@"
a=$?
if [ $a = 65 ] ; then
exit 0
fi
exit $a
This traps those errors and fetchmail flushes the mail. I tried using
'antispam 65' but for whatever reason, that didn't work.
antispam applies to SMTP replies, not to sendmail exit status codes.
Additionally I have been getting:
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
This I was able to resolve by using:
antispam 451
For an MDA configuration? Looks like rather like some random hiccup.
As written above, antispam does not apply to sendmail exit codes.
Also, for this to work I have an mda line that looks like this:
mda "~/spamstop -i -oem -f %F %T"
Can anyone see a better way to deal with this?
Re-read the sendmail operation manual for what -oem does and if you
really want the m in there.
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Matthias Andree