Hello, well, got the sendmail to not strip out nonexistant hosts, but teh fetchmail is still weird.
here is the ersult of fetchmail -V: This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS Linux fry 2.4.1 #1 Sun Feb 4 22:27:22 PST 2001 i686 unknown Taking options from command line and /home/rmr/.fetchmailrc Idfile is /home/rmr/.fetchids Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to rmr. Options for retrieving from [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mahiai.aloha.net: True name of server is mahiai.aloha.net. Protocol is POP3. Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default). Default mailbox selected. Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off). Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off). Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off). Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off). Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off). Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off). Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off). MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off). Idle after poll is disabled (idle off). Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off) Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off) Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default) Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554 Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized. No UIDs saved from this host. thanks, rick On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > > I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem > > that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does > > not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. > > Which version of fetchmail? > > Segfaults are *always* a bug, but if you're not running the newest fetchmail > (5.6.7 or 5.6.8), there's a good chance it is one of the MANY segfaults > fixed since the version in testing and stable... > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh