This is mostly solved - 6.3.10 and newer have a softbounce option
that can be set to keep mail on the POP3 server even if the SMTP
server refuses such mail.
However, I still think that such illegit mail should not be allowed
to clog up the inbox and should be deleted.
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Hi Bruce,
it's not fetchmail losing mail, but Exim rejecting it.
It's Exim that rejects the email, but it's fetchmail that loses the email
by deleting it from the pop3 mailbox when fetchmail knows it hasn't
successfully passed it on to Exim.
If fetchmail made up addresses, that in itself
I said I would post the output from fetchmail -vvv when I lost another mail.
It has happened again and I've attached extracts from the logs
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Hi bruce,
* bruce robson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-09 17:38]:
severity 494418 important
# downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions
thanks
I don't understand why you have downgraded the severity.
From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
grave: makes the
Hi Bruce,
it's not fetchmail losing mail, but Exim rejecting it.
If fetchmail made up addresses, that in itself would constitute data
corruption, i. e. a grave bug. I'm not going to introduce grave bugs to
bypass configuration issues in other software.
So that's not going to happen.
Fetchmail
Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-3
Severity: grave
I'm running lenny/testing and have fetchmail fetching mail from pop3 mailboxes
and
passing it to exim (packages exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config and
exim4-daemon-light
all version 4.69-6).
fetchmail has just lost 3 out of 10 messages. I
Hotmail corrupted the extracts I posted from mail.err and mail.log
I'm now attaching the extracts instead of including their text.
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severity 494418 important
# downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions
thanks
Hi bruce,
* bruce robson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-09 13:50]:
I'm running lenny/testing and have fetchmail fetching mail from pop3
mailboxes and
passing it to exim (packages exim4, exim4-base,
severity 494418 important
# downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions
thanks
I don't understand why you have downgraded the severity.
From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
grave: makes the package in question unusable
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