On 14 Apr 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Recently, I don't know why, I have received mail from a couple of
> different sources with completely screwed up domains. Each time it's
> been something like <foo@.somehost.bar>. Needless to say, when
> fetchmail hands this to exim's SMTP listener it balks, and then
> fetchmail dies, refusing to get any more messages.
>
> This effectively leaves me with no way to get more mail until I go and
> edit my mailbox to fix the offending From address. I'm sure there's a
> better way to handle this, but I'm not sure what it is. Is there some
> way I should reconfigure exim or fetchmail to
> skip/delete/bounce/ignore these messages?
I'm afraid that I feel this is really a fetchmail problem. Nevertheless,
Exim 1.90 has a feature whereby you can apply a special rewriting rule
to incoming SMTP addresses before anything else is done to them. You
could use this to rewrite <foo@.somehost.bar> to <foo@???> I
suppose, to paper over this particular mess. Something like
^([^@]+)@\.(.*)$ $1@$2 S
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