From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 14 14:22:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4647F1065670 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:22:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A908FC15 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EF71FFC22; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 17533844A1; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:33 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Programmer In Training References: <201001141016.56877.mail@maxlor.com> <867hrkx52s.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4B4F1CA0.3070000@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B4F1CA0.3070000@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> (Programmer In Training's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:31:12 -0600") Message-ID: <861vhsvk9i.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Fetchmail made me a spammer X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:22:35 -0000 Programmer In Training writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP. > A possible solution, but who likes IMAP? Pretty much anyone who likes software that works properly and protocols that help rather than hinder the software's efforts to not royally f**k up your mailbox. > I much prefer POP3 and having the mail locally (I delete it from the > server once it's copied). You can do that with IMAP as well. > Also, it seems as if he's downloading it from the other users (the > person who sent the email) mail server and there is no way to force the > other mail server to use one standard over another (although in this > case a useless thought). Who doesn't support IMAP these days? > The problem is it was not able to get into the local mail queue > because of certain default settings (which at one time probably made > sense). No, the problem was that it was processed multiple times. This could have been avoided with IMAP. > This problem would have occurred if he were using IMAP or POP3 > since it never made it into his mail servers queue. This was bouncing > between his server and the original sender's server. No, read the OP again. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no