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

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

Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> > or like this:
>> >   mda "formail -s procmail -p"
>> formail is unnecessary here, I think, as fetchmail calls the mda for
>> every single message seperately.
> But fetchmail doesn't generate a "From " line which is needed as a
> message separator in the mailbox. That's why formail is necessary.

Shouldn't that be done by procmail itself? Programs running an MDA
shouldn't care about the local mailbox format. I may be wrong about this,
it's long ago that I used procmail and mbox.

> Whatever the issue, error handling should be reviewed and revised to
> never produce this kind of DoS situation, independent of actual error
> analysis.

If it's a server issue, there's not much fetchmail can do about it. If
it's a fetchmail flaw, you are right of course.