Hi,
You are right. After adding the proper hosts line, fetchmail purges the
offending mail and continues fetching.
So I think you can close the bug. Thank you for the help.
Claus
søn, 30 10 2005 kl. 23:04 +0100, skrev Matthias Andree:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Claus Hindsgaul wrote:
>
> > fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
> > fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=791
> > fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: malformed address: _mage.dk> may
> > not follow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > -------------------
> >
> > error:
> > -------------------
> > fetchmail: Protocol error.
> > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: malformed address:
> > _mage.dk> may not follow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > gethostbyname failed for ip7133120
> > -------------------
>
> Well... your DNS setup is broken, the machine appears to be unable to
> resolve its own hostname ("ip7133120") to a FQDN.
>
> Please fix this (perhaps a line in /etc/hosts is sufficient) and see if
> that fixes your problem.
>
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