severity 494418 important # downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions thanks
Hi bruce, * bruce robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-09 13:50]: > I'm running lenny/testing and have fetchmail fetching mail from pop3 > mailboxes and > passing it to exim (packages exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config and > exim4-daemon-light > all version 4.69-6). Please send the output of fetchmail -vvv and fetchmail --configdump. > fetchmail has just lost 3 out of 10 messages. I think because the From address > in the message is malformed. > > Fetchmail needs to be able to deliver messages with malformed From addresses. > > The From line is quite likely to be malformed as the pop3 server uses the SMTP > envelope From address when placing the message in the pop3 mailbox. > In fact the pop3 server recorded the envelope-from address in the received > line it added. > > If fetchmail can't get a valid From address by parsing the message it should > make > one up (e.g [EMAIL PROTECTED]). [...] > /var/log/mail.err contains > Aug 9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 > of 10 (979 octets) (log message incomplete) > Aug 9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or > malformed > Aug 9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 > of 10 (1554 octets) (log message incomplete) > Aug 9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or > malformed > Aug 9 10:21:07 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10 > of 10 (919 octets) (log message incomplete) > Aug 9 10:21:07 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or > malformed > > /var/log/exim4/mainlog shows 7 messages being received but doesn't show > anything for the 3 lost messages. As far as I can see this messages comes from exim (sink.c) not from fetchmail. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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