Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-17 Thread SD
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:56, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: > > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > > > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > > > > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > > > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Sendmail pays attention to the return value from doing DNS queries. If sendmail receives an NXDOMAIN response, it treats that as a permanent, 5xx failure code. If sendmail gets a timeout/TRY_AGAIN, it will return a 4xx

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:26, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > > Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. > > > > > > Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: > > > reject=451

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 15), Malcolm Kay said: > This sort of takes us back one more level -- how does the DNS service decide > between responding with NXDOMAIN and a timeout/TRY_AGAIN? And does the > difference have any real significance? NXDOMAIN means that a server replied "this domain does n

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 10:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > [ ... ] > > > Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. > > > > Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: > > reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not > > resolv

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] Thanks guys for the responses -- this really looks the way to go. Does anyone know how sendmail distinguishes between: reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve reject=553 5.1.8 .. Domain of sender address .. does no

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:12, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. > > > > Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. > > Specifica

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:34, you wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Shantanoo
Malcolm Kay wrote: I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download POP3 mail from my ISP. Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread SD
On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=localhost.h

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 14 August 2004 23:37, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > [ ... ] > > > I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't > > get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think > > eventually confusing fetchmail. > > You ought to convince your ISP to apply

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. > > Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. Specifically, see the "SPAM FILTERING" section of the fetchmail(1) manual

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=

Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects

2004-08-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think eventually confusing fetchmail. You ought to convince your ISP to apply better spam filtering before they accept messages for you, which will re