Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-20 Thread Andy Firman
> There's another option, of course: > >fetchmail -> exim > > ...no procmail. I've never seen the need to use it. All I want to do > in the way of filtering, sorting, spam-tagging, stripping the adverts > out of yahoo list mail, etc, I can accomplish with exim's filter > facilities and the

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > (FYI, FWIW) I do have one way of implementing such a kludge > (system-wide) documented at > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin Oh, I like that. Thanks! (BTW I get 403 "Access forbidden" on the li

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence > > meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received headers. > > Can't yo

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > ...Of course, I need some

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am > unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot -- > readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue > to use exim -- or equival

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:59AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > procmail can do things that exim can't (for example, changing a | > message via a filter, such as spamassassin, and then making delivery | > decisions based on the ex

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:59AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > procmail can do things that exim can't (for example, changing a > message via a filter, such as spamassassin, and then making delivery > decisions based on the external program's output). With apologies for contradicting the

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-17 Thread Michael D Schleif
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:18:00:57:59-0400] scribed: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > [...] > > | There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? > > exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) that also includes an LDA (

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: [...] | There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) that also includes an LDA (Local Delivery Agent). procmail is an LDA. exim does a lot that procmail can't do, and p

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. > > > > What are the tradeoffs between these two scenarios? > > > >fetchmail -> exim -> procma

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. >=20 > What are the tradeoffs bet

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Michael D Schleif
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:15:19:15:29-0400] scribed: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:27PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new > > fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days. > > > > Sid, fetchmail,

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:27PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new > fetchmail bugs, but I'm havin

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:51:05AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: | On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:42:08AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | > This is exim's response to fetchmail. You have exim's syntax checking | > turned on, so it will reject any incoming message which is | > syntactically n

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:42:08AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > This is exim's response to fetchmail. You have exim's syntax checking > turned on, so it will reject any incoming message which is > syntactically not a valid email message. This is a good feature if > your MTA receives m

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:59 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Michael Epting wrote: I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days. Sid, fetchmail, exim3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to exim4, but I'm not going to do that when my mail is already brok

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:27PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: | I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new | fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days. | | Sid, fetchmail, exim3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to exim4, but I'm | not going to do that when