Bryan Phinney grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> The fetchmail log should be telling you what the error code is from Postfix
> but if I had to guess, I would say it is a 501, fetchmail normally counts 55?
> codes as spam rejects by default.
Not on *my* system, it didn't. :-) I had to put it in to cause fetchmail
to behave itself when running into those.
> Line should show:
>
> poll mail.whatever.com with proto whatever
> user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' there with password 'password' is 'localuser' here
> antispam 554,550,501
Just a note for anyone reading: The "user" part above is for how you
normally login to your POP or IMAP server to retrieve your mail. If you're
using an ISP that has a login method of using your E-Mail address with
them, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] is correct. If you're using a server that just
requires a username, *don't* add the @domain.com part (I.E. don't use your
address to login unless your provider requres that as your login).
> Add that line and you should no longer see those errors or have misconfigured
> spam piling up in your inbox. Only other way that I know of is to run
> Fetchmail configured to flush the box which removes all messages that were
> seen but no delivered. This is dangerous and could result in your losing
> messages due to Postfix being down when fetchmail tries to pick up mail.
> Another option is to periodically run fetchmail to pick up mail, then reload
> fetchmail in flush mode to flush misconfigured messages, then rerun fetchmail
> in normal mode. You could do this once a week but in the meantime would get
> all those errors in your syslog. Last option is to simply bitbucket all
> fetchmail-daemon notifications with procmail.
That last option is kinda dangerous, though. :-) If you got other
fetchmail errors, you would never know about them.... (Not saying don't do
it if it's really needed, just be aware... :)
--Dave
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