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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:01, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 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=3D<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@beta.home>, size=3D0, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0,=
 proto=3DSMTP,
> > daemon=3DMTA, relay=3Dlocalhost.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.

The explanation sounds reasonable -- I'll try to pull it down=20
some other way.
Thanks!

Malcolm