Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:29:06 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Louis LeBlanc <freebsd@keyslapper.org> Subject: Re: fetchmail strangeness Message-ID: <200310100129.06292.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20031009153101.GA54066@keyslapper.org> References: <200310100023.35223.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20031009153101.GA54066@keyslapper.org>
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:01, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 10/10/03 12:23 AM, Malcolm Kay sat at the `puter and typed: > > I'm using fetchmail to retrieve email from my isp, and getting the > > following message in /var/log/maillog repeated at about the fetchmail > > polling rate: > > > > Oct 9 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995: Syntax error in > > mailbox address "cf4lsn@adsenger.com?" (non-printable character) Oct = 9 > > 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995: > > from=3D<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@beta.home>, size=3D0, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0,= proto=3DSMTP, > > daemon=3DMTA, relay=3Dlocalhost.home [127.0.0.1] > > > > I haven't been able to find the source of the reference: > > cf4lsn@adsenger.com > > I'll bet it has to do with the return address of a spam message that > was sent you. I've seen fetchmail refuse to fetch a number of > messages because the return address would not resolve, but it seems > you've got one with an unprintable character in the address. > > When this happens, I usually break down and connect with Netscape to > delete the message. I've never gotten around to figuring out how to > tell fetchmail to just shut up and flush the message, whether it > fetches it or not. The explanation sounds reasonable -- I'll try to pull it down=20 some other way. Thanks! Malcolm
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