Re: [fetchmail-users] How to tell fetchmail to skip problematic messages

[Hasan S. <hs...@ya...>]

  Thanks Rob,
   
  Is this the only possible solution, because I doubt, I can do such configuration in my MTA.
  
Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> wrote:
  On 10/26/06, Hasan Shatty wrote:
> I have setup fetchmail to fetch from a multidrop pop account and deliver to
> a local MTA.
>
> Some messages (mostly spam or corrupted) cause the MTA to close the socket
> and not accept the message. In this case fetchmail will retry to deliver the
> same message again and mails will get accumulated until I delete the
> problematic messge from the queue.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this issue and let fetchmail simply delete the
> message or ignore it or deliver it to a local spool.

Correctly configure the MTA to provide an appropriate error code - see
the section titled "Spam Filtering" in the fetchmail man page.

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Rob MacGregor
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche
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