Re: [Fetchmail-users] ssl with dslextreme.com attempts to send a spurious email

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Wednesday 24 April 2019 12:47:14 jdow wrote:

> I am running up to date Scientific Linix 7.x (Centos). The fetchmail
> version is fetchmail-6.3.24-7.el7.x86_64. Openssl is
> openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64. The .fetchmailrc file looks like:
> ===8<---
> set syslog
> set postmaster "jdow"
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 60
> #set logfile fetchmail_el.log
>
> poll mail.dslextreme.com with proto pop3 port 995
>     user 'AA...@ds...', with password '123456does not work'
> ssl, is 'jdow@...' here pass8bits
>     user BBBwith password '123456does not work' ssl,
>     is 'jdow@...' here pass8bits
> poll pop.earthlink.net with proto pop3
> ....
> ===8<---
> Command line is: /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 60 --fetchmailrc
> /home/jdow/.fetchmailrc (Yes, there is a redundancy there.)
>
> Fetchmail feeds off to Postfix which runs spamassassin via procmail.
> It is a working configuration from way back so I elected to perpetuate
> it rather than fix it. {^_-}
>
> This (or an older version of it) has been working for a couple decades
> or more. Along about 2019-Apr-04 it started to try to send an email to
> a rather enigmatic address,
> JkiO@JkiO----------------------.{MUNG]us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
> Old logwatch reports show a few sporadic "Illegal address syntax in
> SMTP command" errors in the Postfix syslog messages. But now I am
> getting them nearly every poll cycle. Nothing is going out because I
> do not use the local Postfix for sending mail. It seems to be an
> unnecessary step in the sending process. I believe I have determined
> it is fetchmail itself that is acquiring the localhost socket to send
> the mail using the audit facility.
>
> What configuration error might I have introduced?
>
> {^_^}   Joanne
>
Hi Joanne, long time no see you on the net.  I hope you two are well. I'm 
so-so, 84 now and turning bionic with plastic eyes and as of January, a 
pacemaker as my own was slowing down into the 30's. Getting dizzy in 
between heartbeats I was.  Drove myself to th ER and told them I was in 
need of a pacemaker. Not a bunch to miss a paycheck, they agreed.

My first question is, when did fetchmail grow sendmail like legs? I've 
never used it for anything but a sucker, feeding procmail as its MTA 
which in turn runs incoming past clamd and spamd.  Still useing the TDE 
version of KMail, which has its own SMTP built in for sending.

The second munged address echo's sure sounds like a dns screw up, have 
you recently switched dns severs?

Take care now girl.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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