Bug#146306: fetchmail: so called "bouncing" of mail is braindead

[Liam Morland]

Silently bouncing messages mean messages can get lost. For example, when I 
fetch manually, I can see this:

fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, got 1006
fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@ bounced to 
fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery

If fetchmail is running as daemon like it usually is, I get no indication that 
I missed a message. At the very least, in failures like this, fetchmail should 
send its error messages through as an email, including the subject and sender, 
so that the user knows they missed a message and can investigate.

Bug#146306: fetchmail: so called bouncing of mail is braindead

[Matthias Andree]

Note that some protocols (ETRN, ODMR) require to send non-delivery
notifications, because we cannot just leave messages on server with them.


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