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Subject: Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects
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On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download
> POP3 mail from my ISP.
>
> Sendmail rejects many messages as for example:
> Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000:
>   ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<fbbjqwvcydimv@lightspeedcredit.com>,
>   relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451
>   4.1.8 Domain of sender address fbbjqwvcydimv@lightspeedcredit.com
>   does not resolve
>
> I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't
> get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think
> eventually confusing fetchmail.

"-Z 451" on cli will have fetchmail trash all messages for which MTA 
returns code 451. There's an equivilent fetchmailrc option (antispam 
iirc).

> Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would
> prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would
> be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the
> purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but
> how?
>
> Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that
> I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas.
>
> Malcolm
>
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