On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Ralf Nagel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got the following error message, when I tried to retrieve my
> mail using getpop3. All messages fetched are directly passed to
> qmail-inject.
>
> *******
> RETR 1
> +OK 2944 octets
> Retrieving message...
> qmail-inject: fatal: unable to parse this line:
> Cc: davem%redhat.com;ak%muc.de;[EMAIL PROTECTED];;;;
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject terminated with status 100.
Try specifying the option -m /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to getpop3.
> Qmail-inject terminated and consequently getpop3 terminated
> too, leaving the other 300 messages on the server (which is
> actually good, because obviously getpop3 does not lose
> messages).
> Pretty radical approach... Is it really necessary for qmail-inject
> to stop in a moment?
>
> Could somebody please explain?
qmail-inject apparently barfs on badly formatted headers. getpop3 simply
hands off mail it pulls down from your POP3 mailbox over to qmail-inject.
You can't really point the finger anywhere here. The real culprit here is
the knucklehead who's sending you the mail with crap in the headers.
It would be safe to assume that whoever's sending you nonsense like that
isn't worth reading anyway. So, if it bothers you that much, you can tell
by running getpop3 manually, from console, the number of the message in
your mailbox which is causing this problem, so you can telnet to the pop3
port on your server manually, and blow it away.
