Re: [fetchmail-users] Dangerous bug: losing messages into nowhere

[Antonio C. <pir...@ya...>]

> Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> writes:

> Note though that your local SMTP server would likely have refused
> these messages, probably with a permanent failure due to their being
> malformed.  This would then have resulted in fetchmail deleting them,
> so effectively fetchmail just cut the SMTP server out of the decision
> loop :>  (Neither is an ideal situation though, I agree)

:-)

Actually, I just made this test. I patchd transact.c and removed the
line that discards the messages in this case, and then I tried again.
It happens that my postfix+maildrop configuration accepts the message,
and rewrites a new (partial) set of headers for it. But this is just
postfix: probably, other SMTP servers would react differently.

>                  Please keep list traffic on the list.

Sorry, I clicked "reply to all" without paying attention.

> Rob MacGregor

Thanks,
good bye,
Guido


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