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

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

Quoting from Karel Kulhavy's mail on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:59:30AM +0200:
> I got some malformed spam which causes fetchmail to stop on this spam
> and I am unable to download 162 waiting messages behind this spam.
> 
> This seems to be some kind of fetchmail DoS vulnerability - if someone
> sends this mail to all fetchmail users in the world, they will be pretty
> pissed off to have to log in to remote machine and erase the e-mail by
> hand. And if he sends every hour, they will have to change to a
> different program than fetchmail ;-)

Could you send the output of "fetchmail -v" when the mail gets stuck?

My guess is that the mail gets stuck because fetchmail is unable to
send a bounce message.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.