rabe@??? said:
> I'm fetching my mail from my pop mailboxes using fetchmail 4.5.2.
> Fetchmail feeds the downloaded messages via SMTP to Exim. However, if
> there is a message with a non-valid sender address Exim correctly(!)
> refuses to accept it, BUT it replies with 550. This indicates to
> fetchmail a permanent failure (such as "mailbox not available,") and
> thus Fetchmal correctly(?) ceases further processing of mail for the
> respective recipient ("SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address
> `user@???.'")
My version of fetchmail (5.0.1) documents 550 as a return code to be
used for unwanted spam addresses. I also understand that these codes
can be included in the fetchmailrc file:-
antispam 571 550 501 554
is in my file (generated with fetchmailconf).
Nigel.
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