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

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

On 27/10/05, Karel Kulhavy <cl...@tw...> wrote:

> Hehe one could send a malformed e-mail to this mailing list so all
> people would get pissed - or write a bot which would send every hour
> - that would make the bug to be solved promptly ;-)

However, you'd have to be subscribed to do that, and if somebody were
stupid enough to do it then the following *would* happen promptly:

a) They'd be reported to their ISP
b) Their address would be unsubscribed (and I'd keep a note of the
source IP to ban them in future)

Worth noting too that the situation reported doesn't seem to by
typical.  Certainly on the occasions I've hit similar problems with
malformed email rejected by my SMTP server fetchmail happily carries
on fetching the other mail.  This suggests that the problem is a local
config issue.  Sadly without the OP providing the (much requested)
output of "fetchmail -v -v" it's impossible to do anything but
speculate.

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