From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 21:52: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9039337BAEB for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrianh@worldnet.att.net) Received: from 199.new-york-73-74rs.ny.dial-access.att.net ([12.79.17.199]) by mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20000407045155.TTOY13551.mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net@199.new-york-73-74rs.ny.dial-access.att.net> for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:51:55 +0000 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:57:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian H." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fetchmail hangs on sendmail error 501 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - I run FreeBSD 3.2-release, and I also have fetchmail v5.0 installed. Fetchmail hangs for a while and is unable to retrieve any further messages if Sendmail issues (roughly) the follwing output (while retrieving mail via POP3): Sendmail: reject: 501 - Sender domain must exist I understand that this is most likely an anti-spam feature. The problem is that the offending message is not deleted from my mail server after the error is given... thus I can't view any messages which occur after it. This problem is repeated in subsequent fetchmail attempts. Is there a way to keep the anti-spam features enabled while overcoming this problem? Is it in fact an anti-spam issue, or am I missing something else? I have read the relevant man pages, without success. Please let me know if more details are needed. Once again, thanks in advance for your consideration. Adrian Henke "Yes, it would be absurd that a Guardian should need to be guarded." -Plato's Republic, translation F.M. Cornford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message