[fetchmail]Rejecting large messages when using "sendmail" for delivery

[Matthias Andree]

Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> writes:

>         I have postfix installed locally and was finding problems with feeding
>         mail in via SMTP to do with some spam messages being bounced when I
>         really want them accepted and filtered locally as spam.  So I am now
>         doing delivery via the "sendmail" commandline app.
>
>     Why not look at the anti-spam codes?
>
> I'm looking.  I set "-Z 69", but still I get this:
>
>   fetchmail: MDA returned nonzero status 69
>   not flushed
>
> The issue seems to be because of the way I am using the local MDA
> instead of via SMTP

Indeed. If the local SMTP server were used, fetchmail would try to use
the ESMTP SIZE extension (Postfix knows this extension) and probably
handle the condition a bit better. The "local MDA" mode is half-baked at best.

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Matthias Andree