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Re: Is procmail dropping messages?

2004-08-08 19:04:44
  fetchmail: reading message mindfuq(_at_)mail(_dot_)zianet(_dot_)com:1 of 3 
(26764
  octets) 
  fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
  fetchmail:  retained

Typically caused by spam with a null-character in a header line. You
can check with the webmail interface of your ISP. Fetchmail tries to be
anally correct, barfs and gives up, instead of ignoring or simply
removing it.

Unfortunately, this is one of several cases where unsupervised use of
fetchmail is dangerous, because this kind of email will stay at your
ISP forever, eventually forcing you over quota. It's a DoS fetchmail is
unable to prevent. I went into some serious wrapper programming effort
to generate warnings about it.

Volker

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Volker Kuhlmann                 is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
http://volker.dnsalias.net/             Please do not CC list postings to me.

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