[fetchmail]Fetchmail doesn't seem to like the SMTP server hanging up on it?

Rob MacGregor Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:13:11 +0100


On 30/06/05, Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:
> I have been testing the effects of tightening up some of the postfix
> options.  In particular I set the hard error limit to 1 so that people
> relaying via web proxys get chucked off as soon as they send any invalid
> smtp command.  However, I notice that this seems to cause a problem with
> fetchmail when I reject an invalid address with a 554 response.  It
> seems that fetchmail doesn't read the response in this circumstance,
> hence doesn't flush/bounce the message and everything backs up.

Output of "fetchmail -v -v"?  Have you configured 554 as being an
anti-spam code?

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