Re: [fetchmail-users] how to recover lost email due to 553 sorry error

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Techtron Computers schrieb:
> I had fetchmail running on a FreeBSD Server, which was downloading the email
> off a mail server on the internet, but got the following error msg, see
> below, but now the mail has been downloaded off the server on the internet
> and the mail is not is the local users mailbox, any chance I can recover the
> lost email, where should I look.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> ====================================================
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<general@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed
> rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed
> rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
> fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't really like recipient address
> `general@localhost'
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<postmaster@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed
> rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
> fetchmail: can't even send to postmaster!
> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 flushed
>  flushed
> =====================================================

Depends on your configuration - first, fix your qmail configuration (*) and
add localhost to the rcpthosts.

Then, if your mail is still on the server, you can try to retrieve it by
adding --all -d0 to fetchmail's command line (and after that, re-run
fetchmail as you'd normally do).

If it's not on the upstream server - whoops. You can then obtain the mail
addresses from the fetchmail or qmail-smtpd logs and ask the senders to
re-send.


(*) but consider migrating to Postfix soon,
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html>

HTH
Matthias