On 25, Aug, 2001 at 01:53:05PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 25, Aug, 2001 at 11:41:07AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > > I'd recommend my own getmail over fetchmail; however, if you want to use
> > > fetchmail, configure it to use an MDA rather than delivering by
> > > re-injecting with SMTP. Postmasters all over the net will thank you for
> > > it.
> >
> > Wondering: Why is that?
> >
> > I've been using fetchmail to re-inject with SMTP for years now, with no
> > ill effects that I know of.
>
> That's the whole problem; when it breaks, you don't find out about it --
> instead, the bounces go to the original message sender, or (more often)
> an address which fetchmail picked out of the message headers somewhere
> and decided to use as the envelope sender. It's particularly noxious
> with list mail, as the bounces don't go to the list manager, and the
> offending address is never removed from the list. I've got a couple of
> dozen mailservers blocked at my SMTP port specifically because there's a
> broken fetchmail config there, and I've been unable to reach the people
> responsible.
>
> Re-delivery by SMTP injection is a fundamentally broken design.
Thanks I got wiser, and I've fixed it here at my place.
HAND
Morten
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