On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:54:24 +0100
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this error message comes from your MTA side e.g. in my case sendmail. In
> cf.README you find:
>
> [...]
>
> Notice: domains which are temporarily unresolvable are (temporarily)
> rejected with a 451 reply code. If those domains should be accepted
> (which is discouraged) then you can use
>
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> C{ResOk}TEMP
>
> sendmail will also refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter is not
> fully qualified (i.e., contains a domain as well as a user). If you
> want to continue to accept such senders, use
>
> FEATURE(`accept_unqualified_senders')
>
> [...]
Hmm, thanks Oliver, this is more than likely where I need to be heading I think.
Obviously, I did the Google search, but not the mandatory man stuff :-)
Do you think it's safe to enable this feature? In relation to this particular email I
know it will be rejected by mimedefang anyway, so I guess it's the only real way to
get the message out of my ISP's mailbox and rejected by mimedefang.
>
> In man fetchmail you find:
>
> [...]
>
> RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES
> The protocols fetchmail uses to talk to mailservers are next to bulletproof.
> In normal operation forwarding
> to port 25, no message is ever deleted (or even marked for deletion) on the
> host until the SMTP listener on
> the client side has acknowledged to fetchmail that the message has been
> either accepted for delivery or
> rejected due to a spam block.
>
> [...]
>
> To avoid fetchnmail from keeping this spam in your ISP's email account
> add this feature to your sendmail.mc and recreate it.
>
> Oliver
All makes sense to me now. Thanks for that. I need to learn some more about all these
services I'm using, then I mightn't need to ask stupid questions in future :-)
Pete
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