On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:32:31PM +0200, Lorenzo Chiavacci wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I have a server with exim 4.44 and fetchmail 6.2 set up to download
> emails for several accounts from a POP3 server at my ISP.
> Unfortunately my ISP accepts mail of any kind without much syntax
> checking so I find in my POP3 mailbox senders of this type:
>
> <petronamatt@.com> or "Angie Ledezma" <ang@.com>
>
>
> When fetchmail downloads an email with this sender I get this error message:
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<ang@.com> SIZE=2989
> fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <ang@.com>: domain missing or malformed
> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
>
>
> Is there a way to force exim to accept this kind of email address and
> then process the email at a later time with blackhole?
Am I missing something or is Exim not actually involved in this?
Fetchmail is attempting to collect the mail and issuing the RSET on an
invalid header, so where does Exim come in?
Steven.
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