I know that this has been discussed really often. But all the answers to earlier messages didn't help me at all. So here is what I want to do: I've got a multiple drop account at post.strato.de (account [EMAIL PROTECTED]). All the messages come in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and should be delivered to xyz on my local machine. If there is no local user named xyz, the mail should not be sent to postmaster or something like that, but the sender of the mail should receive an error message. But I didn't even get this far... Here's what fetchmail says: --- snip --- fetchmail: POP3< 28 9810 fetchmail: 5.0.3 querying mail.hi.shuttle.de (protocol POP3) at Mon, 13 Nov 2000 fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 Welcome to GNU POP3 Server Version 0.9.8 <16928.974118 fetchmail: POP3> USER ss1014 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK opened mailbox for ss1014 fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 31 869518 fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Invalid command fetchmail: POP3> UIDL fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< 1 LYRIS-640430-346918-2000.10.24-01.53.59--nicolek#gysar.hi.ni. fetchmail: POP3< 2 LYRIS-640430-346918-2000.10.24-01.53.59--nicolek#gysar.hi.ni. fetchmail: POP3< 3 bulk.22232.20001029200314 fetchmail: POP3< 4 F12xP2ittcXmYaiJOaH00002339 fetchmail: POP3< 5 Pine.LNX.4.21.0010311633071.31536-100000 fetchmail: POP3< 6 000801c0435e$8508b0e0$841706d5 fetchmail: POP3< 7 39FF3438.628ABCD7 fetchmail: POP3< 8 LYRIS-640430-369949-2000.11.01-05.42.50--nicolek#gysar.hi.ni. fetchmail: POP3< 9 002a01c043f4$41714f40$0100a8c0 fetchmail: POP3< 10 13r1f6-0a2EN6C fetchmail: POP3< 11 Pine.LNX.4.21.0011031806340.29786-100000 fetchmail: POP3< 12 99.c0af864.27348725 fetchmail: POP3< 13 20001103103814.6920.qmail fetchmail: POP3< 14 20001104162733.85F69A86BD fetchmail: POP3< 15 3A054DB8.3AAD7931 fetchmail: POP3< 16 381964659.973457105451.JavaMail.root fetchmail: POP3< 17 bulk.20040.20001106001215 fetchmail: POP3< 18 3A05E005.8D3EEB49 fetchmail: POP3< 19 20001106.221254.-3836847.0.my_paris_rose fetchmail: POP3< 20 13t9zr-0ifcauC fetchmail: POP3< 21 000b01c048f1$50c24100$0b02a8c0 fetchmail: POP3< 22 3A0818C6.51718479 fetchmail: POP3< 23 113228359904.20001108101540 fetchmail: POP3< 24 Pine.LNX.4.21.0011081740190.31839-100000 fetchmail: POP3< 25 3A0B014A.53A60CEE fetchmail: POP3< 26 LYRIS-640430-390119-2000.11.11-10.30.10--nicolek#gysar.hi.ni fetchmail: POP3< 27 1805.973954526 fetchmail: POP3< 28 1805.973954526 fetchmail: POP3< 29 3A0E9ADA.13284F65 fetchmail: POP3< 30 003101c04ce0$7eab1360$0100a8c0 fetchmail: POP3< 31 bulk.25086.20001113093440 fetchmail: POP3< . 31 messages for ss1014 at mail.hi.shuttle.de (869518 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< 1 481 fetchmail: POP3< 2 30861 fetchmail: POP3< 3 9212 fetchmail: POP3< 4 2231 fetchmail: POP3< 5 3312 fetchmail: POP3< 6 3579 fetchmail: POP3< 7 1574 fetchmail: POP3< 8 32505 fetchmail: POP3< 9 1896 fetchmail: POP3< 10 1392 fetchmail: POP3< 11 4006 fetchmail: POP3< 12 170002 fetchmail: POP3< 13 1487 fetchmail: POP3< 14 2458 fetchmail: POP3< 15 1691 fetchmail: POP3< 16 2431 fetchmail: POP3< 17 7774 fetchmail: POP3< 18 3887 fetchmail: POP3< 19 1482 fetchmail: POP3< 20 1759 fetchmail: POP3< 21 5972 fetchmail: POP3< 22 333583 fetchmail: POP3< 23 167770 fetchmail: POP3< 24 4790 fetchmail: POP3< 25 4477 fetchmail: POP3< 26 35716 fetchmail: POP3< 27 9809 fetchmail: POP3< 28 9810 fetchmail: POP3< 29 1359 fetchmail: POP3< 30 1535 fetchmail: POP3< 31 10677 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK reading message 1 of 31 (481 octets) fetchmail: retained fetchmail: POP3> TOP 2 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK reading message 2 of 31 (30861 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 senfpott.gysar ESMTP fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-senfpott.gysar fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<steini@localhost> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 ok fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 go ahead fetchmail: terminated with signal 13 --- snip --- Of course I'm running fetchmail with forcecr turned on (it's in my .fetchmailrc and it's listed with fetchmail --version). Anyone? Thanks in advance, Sebastian Steinlechner -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net