On Saturday 14 August 2004 09:10, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 > 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > does not resolve > > I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't > get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think > eventually confusing fetchmail.
"-Z 451" on cli will have fetchmail trash all messages for which MTA returns code 451. There's an equivilent fetchmailrc option (antispam iirc). > Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would > prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would > be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the > purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but > how? > > Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that > I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. > > I would appreciate any ideas. > > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
