Bruno Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A short while before the self-righteous thread on How To Annoy People
> Whose Help You Need, I posted a request for help with a problem I was
> experiencing.
The thread wasn't self-righteous; it was humourous and tongue-in-cheek. Your
post is self-righteous.
> Not a single one of the supposedly helpful people of
> this list have bothered to reply.
We're volunteers, helping people who have made a reasonable effort to
understand qmail (and Unix/Linux/etc, SMTP) administer their systems. Your
question is a common one, and the common resources out there deal with it.
However, to be nice, here's the cause:
-qmail enforces the rfc requirement of line endings being <CR><LF>
-many other MTAs and POP3 servers do not enforce this requirement.
-fetchmail retrieves mail froma POP3 server and fiddles with it, then tries to
re-inject it with SMTP to the local system (by default). It's not particularly
bright about this, and it's a broken design to start with.
-fetchmail is therefore feeding your local system with a broken SMTP
transaction. qmail is refusing it, legitimately.
To solve your problem, either configure sendmail to deliver directly to
the destination mbox files or Maildirs (with procmail or another MDA),
or switch to 'getmail', which doesn't do SMTP re-injection, and has
good support for many qmail features.
Charles
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