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[fetchmail-users] Help with warning: Illegal address syntax (berlios)

[Gary S. <ga...@ga...>]

Hi,

This is a problem which is on going on the fetchmail-friends list at ccil.org. 
I thought I would post it here as well in case people have migrated. Any help 
will would mich appreciated.

+++++++++++++

I have a dial up connection and I am using latest fetchmail (6.2.5) to get the 
mail from a POP3 mailbox and I am using postfix (V1.1.11) as the local SMTP 
server and all this is running on RedHat 9.0.

In general my email is getting through but I do get the following errors in my 
mail logs.

Jul 18 13:25:51 exodus postfix/smtpd[25020]: warning: Illegal address syntax 
from unknown[127.0.0.1] in MAIL command: 
<col...@li...: (qmail 
21055 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2004 07:09:56 -0000>

It is about a message which I am expecting... I am guessing the error is 
occuring when fetchmail talks to postfix to submit the message for local 
delivery.

Looking at the "illegal address" it is clear that the Received line is mixed 
in with the address.

I have now traced one of my problem messages with fetchmail -v -v and this is 
what I get


fetchmail: POP3> LIST 7
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 7 8568
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 7 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK headers follow.
reading message gar...@ma...:7 of 8 (8568 octets)
About to rewrite Return-Path: 
<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail 
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000
Rewritten version is Return-Path: 
<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail 
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000

About to rewrite Reply-To: 
c61...@eb...
Rewritten version is Reply-To: 
c61...@eb...

About to rewrite From: "BBC daily email" <dai...@bb...>
Rewritten version is From: "BBC daily email" <dai...@bb...>

About to rewrite To: ga...@ga...
Rewritten version is To: ga...@ga...

fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL 
FROM:<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: 
(qmail 22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 
-00...@ma...> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=8568
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 Bad address syntax
fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 Bad address syntax
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 exodus.aca-vulcan.ro ESMTP Postfix
fetchmail: SMTP> HELO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 exodus.aca-vulcan.ro
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@exodus>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT 
TO:<c615952fff0eb8febd27fbc7b1dd4792bdeb77a3023419e0f4063f69cReceived: (qmail 
22262 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 04:01:03 -0000>
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 Bad address syntax
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Bye
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
...... flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 7
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Deleted.


Clearly the address which fetchmail is submitting to the SMTP server in the 
MAIL FROM command is broken. Of course the question is what was the origial 
like. The problem is that I don't know as the message has now been deleted. 

Before this I removed the antispam option from my fetchmailrc file. However 
the email is still being deleted even though it was not delivered or 
non-delivered. Is that behaviour correct?

Any more clues?

Thanks,

Gary
-- 
Gary Sims (ga...@ga...)
Vulcan, Brasov, Romania

[fetchmail-users] Re: Help with warning: Illegal address syntax (berlios)

[Graham W. <bo...@de...>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:13:24PM +0300, Gary Sims wrote:
> Hi,

Hello.

> Clearly the address which fetchmail is submitting to the SMTP server in the 
> MAIL FROM command is broken. Of course the question is what was the origial 
> like. The problem is that I don't know as the message has now been deleted. 

Without the original message, it will be kind of difficult to determine
where the problem is. Is the original message at fault, or is fetchmail
mangling something somehow?

> Before this I removed the antispam option from my fetchmailrc file. However 
> the email is still being deleted even though it was not delivered or 
> non-delivered. Is that behaviour correct?

I don't think so. It seems like the SMTP server gave a 501 response, in
which case I would expect fetchmail to bounce the message. Maybe it
tried?

-- 
gram

Re: [fetchmail-users] Re: Help with warning: Illegal address syntax (berlios)

[Gary S. <ga...@ga...>]

Hi everyone,

OK, I have now seen that this isn't a fetchmail problem. I added the KEEP 
option to my fetchmailrc and I used telnet to talk to my ISP's POP3 server. 
The Return-Path is broken when it is sent from my ISP. Interesting enough I 
also signed up to this BBC message on a web mail account and it arrives there 
OK without any corruption, so the problem is definatley with my ISP.

Thanks (everyone) for all your help.

Gary
-- 
Gary Sims (ga...@ga...)
Vulcan, Brasov, Romania

Re: [fetchmail-users] Re: Help with warning: Illegal address syntax (berlios)

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Gary Sims wrote:
> OK, I have now seen that this isn't a fetchmail problem. I added the
> KEEP option to my fetchmailrc and I used telnet to talk to my ISP's POP3
> server. The Return-Path is broken when it is sent from my ISP.
> Interesting enough I also signed up to this BBC message on a web mail
> account and it arrives there OK without any corruption, so the problem
> is definatley with my ISP.

I'm curious about what the broken Return-Path header looks like.  It would 
be nice if we could do something besides drop the message on the floor.

-- 
==============================|   "A microscope locked in on one point
 Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> |Never sees what kind of room that it's in"
 http://www.funknet.net/rfunk |    -- Chris Mars, "Stuck in Rewind"

RE: [fetchmail-users] Re: Help with warning: Illegal address syntax (berlios)

[Rob <rob...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fet...@be... 
> [mailto:fet...@be...] On Behalf Of Rob Funk
> 
> I'm curious about what the broken Return-Path header looks 
> like.  It would 
> be nice if we could do something besides drop the message on 
> the floor.

Details are on the other list's archive, where this problem has had more
discussion :)  From memory there were 2 I saw, one that was concatenated with
the Received header, another that seemed to be missing the closing >.

What I, personally, would like is that any "broken" message (missing the
header line separator, addresses with invalid format etc), could optionally be
forwarded as a plain text attachment to the postamster address.  That way
those who want to receive everything can, and those who're happy to lose it on
the assumption is spam/virus/whatever related can drop it.


PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list.  Email sent directly to me may be
ignored utterly.

-- 
Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?