Benjamin Lutz <[email protected]> writes: > 2) Fetchmail downloads that 20MB email from the public POP3 server. > 3) Fetchmail tries to pass the email to the local postfix server. > 4) Postfix refuses the email with a permanent 552 error because > it's larger than 10MB. > 5) Fetchmail generates and sends a rejection notice, but does not > delete the 20MB Email from the POP3 server because the > "softbounce" option is still the default. > 6) Fetchmail sleeps 60 seconds. > 7) Continue at step 2). > [...] > - Fetchmail's defaults are dangerous. The softbounce option, which is the > default (the manpage claims it'll be disabled by default with the next > version,) can generate large amounts of spam.
None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP. Unlike POP, IMAP a) provides a way to mark a message as "processed" without deleting it and b) does not renumber messages or reuse message numbers. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
