Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail gets stuck because of malformed spam

[Jakob H. <jh...@pl...>]

Karel Kulhavy wrote:

> reading message cl...@tw...:1 of 162 (765 header octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <agrode@%%DOMAIN%>: domain missing or malformed
> gethostbyname failed for kestrel

Fetchmail should go on retrieving the next message after a 501 from the
smtp server, but it seems to consider the failed gethostbyname() a fatal
error.
Looks more like a misconfiguration on your side. "kestrel" is your
hostname, right?

I personally would always recommend using fetchmail with the mda option
(for the usual pop/imap retrieval), so you won't have all these smtp
problems.
At least as long as you are not using multidrop, but that is not
recommended anyway.