From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 08:31:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1139B16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE18143FFD for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leblanc@mirrorimage.net) Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (leblanc.mirrorimage.net [209.192.210.146]) by mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29601 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:30:49 -0400 Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h99FV2dO054120 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:31:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from leblanc@leblanc.mirrorimage.net) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h99FV2Lr054119 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:31:02 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031009153101.GA54066@keyslapper.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200310100023.35223.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200310100023.35223.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: fetchmail strangeness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:31:03 -0000 On 10/10/03 12:23 AM, Malcolm Kay sat at the `puter and typed: > I'm using fetchmail to retrieve email from my isp, and getting the > following message in /var/log/maillog repeated at about the fetchmail > polling rate: > > Oct 9 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995: Syntax error in mailbox address "cf4lsn@adsenger.com?" (non-printable character) > Oct 9 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995: from=, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1] > > I haven't been able to find the source of the reference: > cf4lsn@adsenger.com I'll bet it has to do with the return address of a spam message that was sent you. I've seen fetchmail refuse to fetch a number of messages because the return address would not resolve, but it seems you've got one with an unprintable character in the address. When this happens, I usually break down and connect with Netscape to delete the message. I've never gotten around to figuring out how to tell fetchmail to just shut up and flush the message, whether it fetches it or not. HTH Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall