fetchmail-users — User questions and discussion

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail statistics ?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/10/07, Julien TOUCHE <jul...@ly...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> is there a way to get some statistics for fetchmail ?
> for a given log (or a list), getting number of mails fetched for a
> period (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily or manual) per account.

Not directly, but you could from the log files - you may be able to
modify the likes of awstats to provide that information.  I don't
believe fetchmail ever logs which account a mail was collected from,
so you'd probably have to interpret the information in the log file to
identify that.

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail statistics ?

[Julien T. <jul...@ly...>]

Hi

is there a way to get some statistics for fetchmail ?
for a given log (or a list), getting number of mails fetched for a
period (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily or manual) per account.

thanks
Regards


		Julien

Re: [fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/9/07, M. Emal Alekozai <me...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.
>
> Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?

No

> What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

As Christian said, use the defaults section.  Either that or use a
script to generate it.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[Christian E. <bla...@gm...>]

* M. Emal Alekozai on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 14:00:24 +0100:
> I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.
> 
> Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?
> For example:
>  $CERTFOLDER=$HOME/.certs
>  poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user 'us...@gm...' there with
>  password 'secret' is 'newbie' here options keep 
>  ssl sslfingerprint '59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4'
>  sslcertck sslcertpath $CERTFOLDER
> 
> What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

Use the keyword 'defaults' ?

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[fetchmail-users] use variables in fethcmailrc ?

[M. E. A. <me...@gm...>]

Hi, 

I want to substitute some of my setting in my fetchmailrc file by variables to make the file more flexible.

Is it possible to use variables in a fetchmail config file ?
For example:
 $CERTFOLDER=$HOME/.certs
 poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user 'us...@gm...' there with
 password 'secret' is 'newbie' here options keep 
 ssl sslfingerprint '59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4'
 sslcertck sslcertpath $CERTFOLDER

What would is the standard way of doing this in fetchmail?

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Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Payal R. <pay...@sc...>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:16:02AM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> > option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> > example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> > for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> > qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> > the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> > Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> > is set to receive mails for example.com
> 
> "It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
>  However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
> approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
> headers.

It is not working. My local qmail's box is showing that when I am using 
fetchmail to download mails from my remote server and injecting it in my 
local SMTP, it is rewritting my recipent from pa...@ex... to 
payal@localhost
I am simple running fetchmail as,
fetchmail -v -f /path/to/rcfile

Any ideas on what is wrong? The rc file is just a simple 2 line test 
file like below,
poll domain with proto pop3, nodns :
user payal with pass word to payal here ......

With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/8/07, Jochen Hayek <Joc...@ha...> wrote:
> A while ago I started experiments with socks5 (-> dante)
> and created a /etc/socks.conf on my local host and I set up a socks5 proxy server on a neighbour box.
>
> I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy
> and I also wasn't aware, that my local fetchmail actually does us it,
> but in a situation, when that proxy server on the neighbour box temporarily did not run,
> I finally noticed (using "strace"), that fetchmail contacted my socks5 proxy.
>
>
> I did some rtfm-ing,
> but I did not find a way to instruct fetchmail to *not* attempt contacting my socks5 proxy.

Fetchmail has *no* native socks support.  You're either running it
with a socks wrapper (runsock/socksify) or have added this yourself
(eg via ld.so.preload).  It's hard to say though as you've provided no
real information (version numbers, contents of configuration files,
command lines used, anything really).

I'd suggest you consult the dante documentation or mailing list, for
help on how to configure dante :)

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[fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Jochen H. <Joc...@Ha...>]

A while ago I started experiments with socks5 (-> dante)
and created a /etc/socks.conf on my local host and I set up a socks5 proxy server on a neighbour box.

I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy
and I also wasn't aware, that my local fetchmail actually does us it,
but in a situation, when that proxy server on the neighbour box temporarily did not run,
I finally noticed (using "strace"), that fetchmail contacted my socks5 proxy.


I did some rtfm-ing,
but I did not find a way to instruct fetchmail to *not* attempt contacting my socks5 proxy.

I had to get rid of my local /etc/socks.conf , so that fetchmail talked straight to the IMAP instead of through the socks5 proxy.

I would actually prefer a command line option and an entry in the RC file.

Is there already a feature of fetchmail, that this could be made similar to?



Does the community have any comments on this?

J.

Re: [fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/6/07, Payal Rathod <pay...@sc...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite"
> option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain
> example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it
> for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
> qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are
> the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?
> Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and
> is set to receive mails for example.com

"It depends" - there is far too little real information to be certain.
 However, you shouldn't *have* to rewrite the headers.  Certainly the
approach you've outlined is how I use fetchmail and I don't rewrite
headers.

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[fetchmail-users] injecting message and header rewrite

[Payal R. <pay...@sc...>]

Hi,
I have read the docs and faq but am quite confused with "header rewrite" 
option. I want to download mails from server X (sendmail) for my domain 
example.com, by fetchmail and inject in my localhost (qmail) - clean it 
for viruses and spam and forward it to server Y (which can be anything).
qmail will route the messages through control/smtproutes files. What are 
the options I require for fetchmail, do I need to play with headers?  
Server Y is not in my control (it may be exchange server or MDaemon) and 
is set to receive mails for example.com
Any ideas please?
With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/26/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> Nedavno Stuart J. Browne pise:
>
> | POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
> | seperately.
>
>
> But I do not want to get the body separately, I want NOT to get mail at
> all after fetching headers (if I find that that particular mail is for
> user that does not exist on my mail server). Looking at fetchmail log
> it seems to me that it can be done:
<---SNIP--->
> But I do not knew how how to do that :-(

In summary of what others have said in this thread:

1) You CANNOT do that with POP3.  You have to switch to IMAP to solve
your problem.
2) To not forward mis-addressed email you have to set the postmaster
address to ""

Also known as, fetchmail cannot make up for the shortcomings of your
ISP or the way you've configured it.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Stuart J. Browne pise:

| POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
| seperately.


But I do not want to get the body separately, I want NOT to get mail at
all after fetching headers (if I find that that particular mail is for
user that does not exist on my mail server). Looking at fetchmail log
it seems to me that it can be done:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<som...@so...> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1428
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <som...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<non...@ou...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <non...@ou...>... User    \
	unknown
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't really like recipient address        \
	`non...@ou...'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


It looks like that at this point fetchmail got message that I do not
want this mail, but then it downloads it anyway and forwards it to
postmaster (iva):

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<iva@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <iva@localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: no address matches; forwarding to iva.
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on\
	a line by itself
#*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1QAh4Iv013586 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


So if at one point fetchmail got the message that "SMTP listener doesn't
really like recipient address" I just have to make it to skip few steps
("no address matches; forwarding to iva") and to go right to:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

But I do not knew how how to do that :-(




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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Yvan <nos...@ml...> writes:

> Nedavno Matthias Andree pise:
>
> | The best solution though is telling the upstream site what valid users
> | are and have them reject messages for others
>
>
> How do I do that?

That depends on your upstream, evidently. E-Mail, fax, phone, ... :-)

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Yvan <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Matthias Andree pise:

| The best solution though is telling the upstream site what valid users
| are and have them reject messages for others


How do I do that?


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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Ivan Imperl schrieb am 2007-02-22:

> Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:
> 
> | Output of "fetchmail --configdump" (remember to remove passwords)?
> 
> # fetchmail --configdump
> TRUE=1; FALSE=0
> 
> os_type = 'linux'
> feature_options = ('pop3','imap','gssapi','etrn','odmr','ssl','inet6',)
> # Start of configuration initializer
> fetchmailrc = {
>     'poll_interval':0,
>     "logfile":"/var/log/fetchMailByIva",
>     "idfile":"/root/.fetchids",

Don't run fetchmail as root unless you must. Few sites have to.

>     "postmaster":"iva",
>     'bouncemail':TRUE,
>     'spambounce':FALSE,
>     "properties":"",
>     'invisible':FALSE,
>     'showdots':FALSE,
>     'syslog':FALSE,
>     # List of server entries begins here
>     'servers': [
>         # Entry for site `pop3.infosky.net' begins:
>         {
>             "pollname":"pop3.infosky.net",
>             'active':TRUE,
>             "via":None,
>             "protocol":"POP3",
>             "port":None,
>             'timeout':300,
>             'interval':0,
>             "envelope":"Received",

That's not robust. Use another header, see
http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop

> | Ok, you're running an old, unsupported and vulnerable version of
> | fetchmail (missed that the first time).  Upgrade to (at least) 6.3.6
> | before posting any further diagnostics.
> 
> I will, but before I do is it possible to do what I want with pop3 (to
> discard - not to download mail if username does not exist locally) ?
> Sunil Shetye in his mail thinks that it can not be done. Do you agree?

No way that works on all servers at least; and implementing a way to
avoid that would require (a) server cooperation, (b) downloading message
headers twice.

The best solution though is telling the upstream site what valid users
are and have them reject messages for others.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:

| Ok, you're running an old, unsupported and vulnerable version of
| fetchmail (missed that the first time).  Upgrade to (at least) 6.3.6
| before posting any further diagnostics.

I upgraded to 6.3.7. And no change:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration created Mon Dec  1 12:45:17 2003 by fetchmailconf
set logfile "/var/log/fetchMailByIva"
set postmaster "iva"
# set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:
	localdomains ourdomain.org
       user 'ouruseratisp' there with password 'pass' is * here

antispam 550
-------------------------------------------------------------------
...
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<so...@so...> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1428
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <so...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<Non...@ou...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <Non...@ou...>... User \
	unknown
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't really like recipient address     \
	`Non...@ou...'
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<iva@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <iva@localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: no address matches; forwarding to iva.
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
#*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1N8Ccjq009290 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 something.somethingelse.org closing    \
	connection
fetchmail: 6.3.7 querying pop3.infosky.net (protocol POP3)        \
	at Fri 23 Feb 2007 09:12:39 AM CET: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existingusers?

[Stuart J. B. <sjb...@bl...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fet...@li... 
> Subject: Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for 
> non-existingusers?

<snip>

> In pop3 protocol, fetchmail does not download the mail headers and
> body separately. This is because, the pop3 protocol does not allow
> download of the body of a mail separately. So, even if the mail has
> been refused, fetchmail still downloads the rest of the body.

POP3 has 'top' which fetches headers-only, but yes, can't get the body
seperately.

Stuart

Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/22/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:
>
> | Output of "fetchmail --configdump" (remember to remove passwords)?

Well, the anti-spam code is recognised so it should drop any emails
that your local SMTP server returns that code for.

> I will, but before I do is it possible to do what I want with pop3 (to
> discard - not to download mail if username does not exist locally) ?
> Sunil Shetye in his mail thinks that it can not be done. Do you agree?

Yes (well, I defer to his greater understanding of the protocol).

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:

| Output of "fetchmail --configdump" (remember to remove passwords)?

# fetchmail --configdump
TRUE=1; FALSE=0

os_type = 'linux'
feature_options = ('pop3','imap','gssapi','etrn','odmr','ssl','inet6',)
# Start of configuration initializer
fetchmailrc = {
    'poll_interval':0,
    "logfile":"/var/log/fetchMailByIva",
    "idfile":"/root/.fetchids",
    "postmaster":"iva",
    'bouncemail':TRUE,
    'spambounce':FALSE,
    "properties":"",
    'invisible':FALSE,
    'showdots':FALSE,
    'syslog':FALSE,
    # List of server entries begins here
    'servers': [
        # Entry for site `pop3.infosky.net' begins:
        {
            "pollname":"pop3.infosky.net",
            'active':TRUE,
            "via":None,
            "protocol":"POP3",
            "port":None,
            'timeout':300,
            'interval':0,
            "envelope":"Received",
            'envskip':0,
            "qvirtual":None,
            "auth":"any",
            'dns':TRUE,
            'uidl':FALSE,
            "aka":[],
            "localdomains":["ourdomain.net"],
            "interface":None,
            "monitor":None,
            "plugin":None,
            "plugout":None,
            "principal":None,
            'tracepolls':FALSE,
            'users': [
                {
                    "remote":"ouruseratisp",
                    "password":"pass",
                    'localnames':["root", '*'],
                    'fetchall':FALSE,
                    'keep':FALSE,
                    'flush':FALSE,
                    'rewrite':TRUE,
                    'stripcr':FALSE,
                    'forcecr':FALSE,
                    'pass8bits':FALSE,
                    'dropstatus':FALSE,
                    'dropdelivered':FALSE,
                    'mimedecode':FALSE,
                    'idle':FALSE,
                    "mda":None,
                    "bsmtp":None,
                    'lmtp':FALSE,
                    "netsec":None,
                    "preconnect":None,
                    "postconnect":None,
                    'limit':0,
                    'warnings':3600,
                    'fetchlimit':0,
                    'batchlimit':0,
                    'ssl':FALSE,
                    "sslkey":None,
                    "sslcert":None,
                    "sslproto":None,
                    'sslcertck':FALSE,
                    "sslcertpath":None,
                    "sslfingerprint":None,
                    'expunge':0,
                    "properties":None,
                    "smtphunt":["localhost"],
                    "fetchdomains":[],
                    "smtpaddress":None,
                    "smtpname":None,
                    'antispam':'550',
                    "mailboxes":[],
                }
                ,           ]
        }
    ]
}
# End of initializer


| Ok, you're running an old, unsupported and vulnerable version of
| fetchmail (missed that the first time).  Upgrade to (at least) 6.3.6
| before posting any further diagnostics.

I will, but before I do is it possible to do what I want with pop3 (to
discard - not to download mail if username does not exist locally) ?
Sunil Shetye in his mail thinks that it can not be done. Do you agree?



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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Sunil Shetye pise:


| In pop3 protocol, fetchmail does not download the mail headers and
| body separately. This is because, the pop3 protocol does not allow
| download of the body of a mail separately. So, even if the mail has
| been refused, fetchmail still downloads the rest of the body.
| 
| To avoid downloading the body, you will have to:
| - use imap instead of pop3,
| - set postmaster to "" (empty).


My ISP does not have imap, I have to use pop3.

I tried to setup postmaster to "", but mail still gets downloaded, it
only is not deleivered to my mailbox - not what I want.



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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Ivan Imperl's mail on Wed, Feb 21, 2007:
> set postmaster "iva"
> # set nobouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> 
> poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:

...

> Now to the problem. Recently we started to receive a lot of (large) mail
> that is for the users that do not exist (do not have accounts) on local
> mail server. Since this takes a lot of dial-up time, I was wondering if
> there is a possibility for fetchmail to delete such mail.

In pop3 protocol, fetchmail does not download the mail headers and
body separately. This is because, the pop3 protocol does not allow
download of the body of a mail separately. So, even if the mail has
been refused, fetchmail still downloads the rest of the body.

To avoid downloading the body, you will have to:
- use imap instead of pop3,
- set postmaster to "" (empty).

Note that if you set postmaster to "", you may not get any
notifications from fetchmail.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/22/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:
<--SNIP-->
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> # Configuration created Mon Dec  1 12:45:17 2003 by fetchmailconf
> set logfile "/var/log/fetchMailByIva"
> set postmaster "iva"
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
>
> poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:
>         localdomains ourdomain.org
>        user 'ouruseratisp' there with password 'pass' is * here
>
> antispam 550

Output of "fetchmail --configdump" (remember to remove passwords)?

<--SNIP-->
> fetchmail: 6.2.0 querying pop3.infosky.net (protocol POP3) at Thu 22 \
>         Feb 2007 08:56:31 AM CET: poll completed

Ok, you're running an old, unsupported and vulnerable version of
fetchmail (missed that the first time).  Upgrade to (at least) 6.3.6
before posting any further diagnostics.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

Nedavno Rob MacGregor pise:

| You could configure 550 as an anti-spam code (see the man page), but
| keep in mind that if somebody mis-types an email address it'll just
| get deleted and you'll never know.

I did. Here:


-----------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration created Mon Dec  1 12:45:17 2003 by fetchmailconf
set logfile "/var/log/fetchMailByIva"
set postmaster "iva"
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:
	localdomains ourdomain.org
       user 'ouruseratisp' there with password 'pass' is * here

antispam 550
-----------------------------------------------------------------


but it had no difference:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<so...@so...> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1428
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <so...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<Non...@ou...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <Non...@ou...>... User \
	unknown
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't really like recipient address \
	`Non...@ou...'
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<iva@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <iva@localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: no address matches; forwarding to iva.
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on\
	a line by itself
#*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1M7uVrX002878 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: 6.2.0 querying pop3.infosky.net (protocol POP3) at Thu 22 \
	Feb 2007 08:56:31 AM CET: poll completed
-----------------------------------------------------------------


So mail still gets downloaded (what I want to avoid) and forwarded to
me. Any suggestions?


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Re: [fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2/21/07, Ivan Imperl <nos...@ml...> wrote:
> My ISP forwards all mail for my domain at one account. I than use
> fetchmail to download all mail to my box, MailScanner to scan for
> spam and viruses (for winblows users) and sendmail distribute it to
> users on local network. Hire is my .fetchmailrc:
>
> # Configuration created Mon Dec  1 12:45:17 2003 by fetchmailconf
> set logfile "/var/log/fetchMailByIva"
> set postmaster "iva"
> # set nobouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
>
> poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:
>         localdomains ourdomain.org
>        user 'ouruseratisp' there with password 'pass' is * here
>
> It's a low traffic on dial-up connection. Fedora Core 1 (about to be
> replaced with Debian etch).
>
> Now to the problem. Recently we started to receive a lot of (large) mail
> that is for the users that do not exist (do not have accounts) on local
> mail server. Since this takes a lot of dial-up time, I was wondering if
> there is a possibility for fetchmail to delete such mail.

You could configure 550 as an anti-spam code (see the man page), but
keep in mind that if somebody mis-types an email address it'll just
get deleted and you'll never know.

Note too that you really should have set the envelope header option to
correctly parse multi-drop emails - see the man page again.  Not doing
this can lead to email going places you weren't expecting (like being
dropped on the floor).

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        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

[fetchmail-users] How not to download mail for non-existing users?

[Ivan I. <nos...@ml...>]

My ISP forwards all mail for my domain at one account. I than use
fetchmail to download all mail to my box, MailScanner to scan for
spam and viruses (for winblows users) and sendmail distribute it to
users on local network. Hire is my .fetchmailrc:

# Configuration created Mon Dec  1 12:45:17 2003 by fetchmailconf
set logfile "/var/log/fetchMailByIva"
set postmaster "iva"
# set nobouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

poll pop3.ourisp.net with proto POP3:
        localdomains ourdomain.org
       user 'ouruseratisp' there with password 'pass' is * here

It's a low traffic on dial-up connection. Fedora Core 1 (about to be
replaced with Debian etch).

Now to the problem. Recently we started to receive a lot of (large) mail
that is for the users that do not exist (do not have accounts) on local
mail server. Since this takes a lot of dial-up time, I was wondering if
there is a possibility for fetchmail to delete such mail.



Hire is a log of (small) unwanted mail:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1J7MJS8002870 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 2 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: reading message something.somethingelse.org:2 of 2 (1428 \
	octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<som...@so...> BODY=7BIT SIZE=1428
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <som...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<Non...@ou...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <Non...@ou...>... User \
	unknown
fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 5.1.1 <Non...@ou...>...\
	User unknown
fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address \
	`Non...@ou...'
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 something.somethingelse.org ESMTP Sendmail \
	8.12.10/8.12.10; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:22:48 +0100
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 something.somethingelse.org Hello \
	something.somethingelse.org [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL \
	FROM:<FET...@so...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 \
	<FET...@so...>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<som...@so...>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <som...@so...>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
fetchmail: SMTP: (bounce-message body)
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1J7MmS8002892 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 something.somethingelse.org closing \
	connection
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<iva@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <iva@localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: no address matches; forwarding to iva.
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
#*fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 l1J7MJS9002870 Message accepted for delivery
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 2
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: 6.2.0 querying pop3.infosky.net (protocol POP3) at Mon 19
Feb 2007 08:22:49 AM CET: poll completed fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 2.0.0 something.somethingelse.org closing
connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


As you can see mail was delivered to iva@localhost (me) as it is set in
~/.fetchmailrc. I can set postmaster to empty string, but mail still
gets downloaded (which is what I am trying to avoid), it only gets
discarded.

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