From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 19:20:20 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 ECC3B16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:20:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B580543D1F for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:20:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bw44h-0007MX-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:20:19 +0200 Received: from 219.65.89.26 ([219.65.89.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:20:19 +0200 Received: from gmane by 219.65.89.26 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:20:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Shantanoo Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:34:25 +0530 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <411E6239.7030704@dhumketu.cjb.net> References: <200408141740.58105.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.65.89.26 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200408141740.58105.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Sender: news 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 19:20:21 -0000 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. > > Malcolm have a look at mail/filtermail Regards, Shantanoo