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Re: [fetchmail]Rejecting large messages when using "sendmail" for delivery

2005-06-29 23:56:04
Indeed. If the local SMTP server were used, fetchmail would try to use
the ESMTP SIZE extension (Postfix knows this extension) and probably
handle the condition a bit better. The "local MDA" mode is half-baked at best.

It doesn't mention that "the local MDA mode is half-baked" in the man pages...

Seemed like a good solution to me because the point was I wanted a way to bypass all my usual postfix restrictions. Situation is that I normally reject mail which looks "suspicious" like having an email address which is obviously fake. At least this way someone might get a bounce or failure message if it's really genuine. However, by the time fetchmail is handling mail it's going to become a bounce, so I am in the awkward position of effectively silently discarding users' mail (because the orig email address appears to be fake or at least it's unreplyable).

I can work around this by setting up multiple instances of the smtpd I guess, but I was hoping to work around it in the simple way I just described.

Also, since changing back to using the SMTP delivery option I get occasional points where fetchmail dies with "terminated with signal 13". I'm going to set it up under daemontools if I can figure out the correct fetchmail incantations...

Ed W