Re: [fetchmail-devel] [Bug #17599] antispam does not work

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Dear Kees Bakker,

Thanks for your comments. I think you will have to subscribe to the
fetchmail-devel list before replying to the list.

Quoting from Kees Bakker's mail on Wed, Oct 13, 2010:
> Thanks Sunil, that was a quick answer :-)
> 
> I've tested it somewhat, not extensive. To me the patch looks
> OK.
> 
> It is strange that so few people have complained, because
> without a working --antispam option in a fetchmail+MTA
> configuration there could be a pile of spam messages that keep
> being pulled from the pop server and always rejected by the
> MTA due to 450 (for example).
> 
> With this fix AND with the --antispam option such spam messages
> will now be flushed from the pop server.
> 
> Again, thanks Sunil for fixing this.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Kees Bakker

This could be because fetchmail prefers options added to the rcfile in
order to keep the command line clean. Due to this, fetchmail's option
processing may have been neglected.

Thanks for testing.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.