From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 14:23:57 2004 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 5913416A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:23:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp15.wxs.nl (smtp15.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3B143D41 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:23:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp15.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I2F009CVXBSI3@smtp15.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:23:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7EENoOn001448; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:23:50 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i7EENnVf001447; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:23:50 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:23:49 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200408141740.58105.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Malcolm Kay Message-id: <20040814142349.GA884@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <200408141740.58105.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions Questions Subject: Re: Fetchmail/Sendmail rejects X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:23:57 -0000 On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I run fetchmail in daemon mode to download > POP3 mail from my ISP. > > Sendmail rejects many messages as for example: > Aug 14 16:59:33 beta sm-mta[35000]: i7E7DYje035000: > ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, > relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1], reject=451 > 4.1.8 Domain of sender address fbbjqwvcydimv@lightspeedcredit.com > does not resolve > > I am quite happy to have these rejected but it seems they don't > get deleted at the ISP end and clog up the mail box, I think > eventually confusing fetchmail. > > Is there some reasonable way of disposing of these messages. I would > prefer not to download these into my normal user mailbox but I would > be quite happy to divert them to some pseudo user setup for the > purpose. I would imagine sendmail can be coaxed into doing this, but > how? > > Responding to 2 or 3 lists using a valid e-mail address means that > I receive a lot of spam including much with unresolvable addresses. > > I would appreciate any ideas. Fetchmail (nor getmail) will do this for you. I don't know of any (other) program that allow you to do this on the client side. You can do this if you have shell access to the ISP server with procmail. Can you tell me if you have access to those files? (It doesn't make much sence going in to that rigth now.) -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/