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

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

On 10/28/06, Hasan Shatty <hs...@ya...> wrote:
> Dear Rob,
>
> I'm using oracle email server. It returns errors such as : 5.6.0: NULs not
> allowed or 5.5.1: unrecognized command, before it drops the connection, but
> fetchmail doesn't catch the error codes.
> I've added the antispam option as:  antispam 560,551
> Is that correct.?

It should be providing other messages and codes - for example your
"5.5.1" should be accompanied by a 500 error.  See RFC 2821:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html

If you can't get Oracle email server (which by the looks of things
Oracle don't develop any more) to behave correctly then you're out of
luck.  You either need to abandon trying to get fetchmail to work with
such a broken server, or move to a working one.

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Rob MacGregor
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