[fetchmail]antispam codes, From filtering

[Scott Ingram]

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Scott Ingram
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Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732-9414

> Scott Ingram wrote:
>>>On 18/07/05, Scott Ingram <scott@ingram.bz> wrote:
>>>>Is it possible to change the behavior of fetchmail so that it
>>>>doesn't delete the mail on the server in response to an anti spam
>>>>message from the SMTP listerner on port 25?
>>>Sure, don't configure any anti-spam codes.  Quoting the man page:
>>
>> Well, I haven't.  I also didn't build it, I'm using a Debian binary. Is
>> it possible that antispam actions were hardcoded in the build?  Otherwise,
>> I would have expected the default behavior I desire.
>
> Try "fetchmail -V -v -v" to find out.

As Rob McGregor pointed out in another response, the 5xx response from
the MTA tells fetchmail that its a permanent error, so the default
behavior is to delete it.

>
>>>If that's not what you want, don't use a 5xx series code for temporary failures!
>>
>> I do need a permanent (or at least persistent) failure from this particular
>> sender, as the content is actually dealt with by a process on the IMAP
>> server.
>
> And what prevents the IMAP server process from sieving the message into
> a separate folder that fetchmail isn't polling?

The IT department.  Very Windows centric, without much understanding of the
alternatives.  To give a little more detail, the content is actually
voicemail, delivered as .wav files, which are a little problematic to view
in elm.

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