Re: [Fetchmail-users] Working around "Bad sender address syntax" error?

[J. R. <jo...@an...>]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 08:04:04 AM Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 10.09.2014 um 07:55 schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> > I would prefer to see a 4th option:
> > Save the email as a TXT file in a configurable location to allow us to at
> > least confirm it is spam and not a misconfigured email client. (I've
> > encountered that particular situation not too long ago)
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> I do not think I will go for such features.
> 
> I want fetchmail to behave in a consistent and easily determined way,
> rather than along many ifs and buts, meaning in particular I want it to
> only ever use the one specific delivery path that is configured.
> 
> Another instance, disabling the "fallback" from SMTP to MDA was
> something that happened at my insisting already before I became a
> maintainer because it's just hard to track and tends to trigger false
> reports about misfiled/lost mail.
> 
> Feel free to file a feature request on the sourceforge.net project page
> (you need to be a registered user so I can ask questions and avoid
> hit-and-run reports) so this does not get lost, but it is very low
> priority for me and unlikely to happen in the next year.

Thank you for your reply. I will put this as a feature request.

I have not looked into the code yet, but if I were to provide a patch making 
this possible, would you be willing to work with me to get it included?

One other option I was thinking off would be to move the entire email into the 
body of a "new" email and add headers to have it delivered to the user as 
such. That should avoid any security issues.

If that is more acceptable, then please let me know and I will try to 
implement it like that.

Kind regards,

Joost

PS. Expect the feature request later today (if I can get a user account 
sorted)