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

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

Am 24.04.19 um 18:47 schrieb jdow:
> 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,

you are not using a multi-user mailbox setup unless you stripped more
than the password from the poll mail.dslextreme.com section. I am
however wondering if 6.3.24 is really the latest fetchmail package for
Scientific Linux.

Can we look at some logging around the faulty message? Something like:

/usr/bin/fetchmail -vv --nosyslog --nodetach --fetchmailrc
/home/jdow/.fetchmailrc

(along the lines of <http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>,
item 5 would show us how fetchmail sees your configuration)

Has your computer running fetchmail developed hardware troubles? Does it
use ECC-protected RAM, and if so, is there relevant EDAC logging? Is
other software malfunctioning since c. three weeks? Have there been
power brownouts or flukes somehow, and has the computer been rebooted since?

Greetings
Matthias