Hi,

My fetchmail brings mail from a POP3 server. None of you will be
surprised that there are a bunch of spam emails waiting for me. The
problem is that some of those spam messages come from an unresolvable
sender domains. This causes a very significant delay for each message,
and what's worse, the messages stay on the server and the delay
happens every time, and it presumably gets worse as more problematic
spams accumulate there.

Here is a bit of a fetchmail -v trace:

fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2406
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not 
resolve
fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
does not resolve
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
 not flushed

I use fetchall as the only non-default user option. Using "no dns" as
a server option does not change anything.

Any ideas how to clean the queue on the server without risking losing
an important email?

I read the docs, I searched the web... What am I missing?

I am on Fedora Core 4 on x86_64:

$ rpm -q fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4
$ rpm -q sendmail
sendmail-8.13.7-2.fc4.2

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