On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:56, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: > > 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=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 > > > 4.1.8 Domain of sender address > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > have a look at mail/filtermail > > I've just downloaded this port and find it quite interesting. However > it seems not to offer very much in this particular case as the > criteria used are similar to those used by my ISP to reject mail -- > I'm able to set the level. But I don't see a way of getting > filtermail to reject based on domain name resolution. > > Others have pointed out that spam filtering in fetchmail can be used > to delete mail based on the error code returned by sendmail. It seems > it might also be reasonable to change sendmail.cf to issue a 553 > error in place of the 451 as the 553 invoking messages are deleted by > fetchmail by default.
No need. Assuming you do want to reject (trash) the email you can specify multiple return codes to fetchmail. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
