I pop my mail off a server with fetchmail. Every now and then there
is a socket error while downloading an email. The transfer stops,
and nothing else gets downloaded. I have to log onto the mail server
manually with telnet to DELE the offending email. The really bad part
is that the emails I
I posted my question in comp.mail.sendmail.
one suggested me to add procmail to fetchmail. another suggested using
getmail.
but before I got their reply, I used OE to pull them out... I guess M$
OE breeded a generation of usres to use badly formatted email
addressses. I guess Asians don't like
they are still bombing my email account using a non-ascii name as the
mailbox name...annoying... there must be a fetchmail solution... and I
failed to notice it in the doc...
m.w.chang wrote:
done.
is there a fetchmail option to force-get the messages... the china guys
are quite mad about
done.
is there a fetchmail option to force-get the messages... the china guys
are quite mad about chinese names... :)
Joel Hammer wrote:
If you feel adventuresome, you might telnet to your pop3 server, and try to
delete the file manually. (telnet server 110.)
Joel
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Swiftly. Silently.
I found this in the error log. can I (the receiver) resolve it? Seems
that it's more like a problem with the pop3 mail server
Dec 1 00:30:22 server fetchmail[3587]: SMTP error: 501 5.1.7 Syntax
error in mailbox address **@[61.149.10.148] (non-printable
character)
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this is the message header... it's blocking my pop3
how should I poll the mailbox with this strange from address?
looks more like an attack on others' mail services
btw, are non-printable characters (big5 codes) allowed in email address?
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:28:38 +0800
From:
If you feel adventuresome, you might telnet to your pop3 server, and try to
delete the file manually. (telnet server 110.)
Joel
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:05:29PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote:
this is the message header... it's blocking my pop3
how should I poll the mailbox with this strange
