Re: Unresolvable domain name e-mail
If you need to deliver to multiple users, or if there are local aliases that you want sendmail to handle, then you won't be able to use this method. It does work well for individual users who run fetchmail to get their mail. Thanks Tony, (and Javier for your reply) I'm using fetchmail in multi-drop mode. I'm guessing sendmail needs to be delivering it then right? Or does fetchmail already drop correctly to the relevant user mailboxes? As for what Javier said - I AM in fact running spambouncer. This happens before spambouncer processes the mail for spam. I'm guessing I should try to set sendmail to accept unresolvable domains and see if spambouncer then catches the mail? Regards and thanks so far. --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Unresolvable domain name e-mail
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote: On my system, when fetchmail fetches mail from my ISP, it won't flush mail coming from an unresolvable domain. Hence it sists there till I delete it manually at the ISP server end. I CAN set sendmail to accept unresolvable domains, but I don't really want to fill mailboxes with what is ofcourse, spam. If I was to allow sendmail to accept the unresolvable domains, can I then check for an unresolvable domain with procmail and /dev/null it? Is there a nice clean way of doing this? The fetchmail man page describes a no dns option for your .fetchmailrc -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. / \|\ /|+- | | The world is a comedy to those that think, / /\ \\_/| \/ ||__)|_|a tragedy to those who feel. - Horace Walpole -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Unresolvable domain name e-mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-Nov-2002/11:14 +0800, Edward Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, when fetchmail fetches mail from my ISP, it won't flush mail coming from an unresolvable domain. Hence it sists there till I delete it manually at the ISP server end. I CAN set sendmail to accept unresolvable domains, but I don't really want to fill mailboxes with what is ofcourse, spam. If I was to allow sendmail to accept the unresolvable domains, can I then check for an unresolvable domain with procmail and /dev/null it? Is there a nice clean way of doing this? Yes. Tell fetchmail to skip sendmail and deliver directly to procmail. In the default config, fetchmail delivers via SMTP to localhost:25. You can tell it to deliver to a specific mail delivery agent using the mda option in ~/.fetchmailrc: defaults protocol POP3 fetchall nokeep mda procmail -d $LOGNAME poll mail.isp.com username myusername password mypassword If you need to deliver to multiple users, or if there are local aliases that you want sendmail to handle, then you won't be able to use this method. It does work well for individual users who run fetchmail to get their mail. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/ Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. http://www.linux.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D [EMAIL PROTECTED] iD8DBQE924OxpCpg3WyUI50RAkC9AKCUtRspnoeSPbWpgTiOpa1MMeMlNQCeIqf7 DO0YhjqJexUONqN4S5zAO4Q= =wOqH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Unresolvable domain name e-mail
The fetchmail man page describes a no dns option for your .fetchmailrc I know, I'm already using that. It's not fetchmail rejecting the unresolvable domain, it's sendmail I think. It returns an error to fetchmail which then causes fetchmail to NOT flush the message as I understand it. I don't mind telling sendmail to accept unresolvable domains, so that fetchmail will flush, but is there then a way to delete it before it hits a user's mailbox? Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Unresolvable domain name e-mail
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:14:16AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: On my system, when fetchmail fetches mail from my ISP, it won't flush mail coming from an unresolvable domain. Hence it sists there till I delete it manually at the ISP server end. I CAN set sendmail to accept unresolvable domains, but I don't really want to fill mailboxes with what is ofcourse, spam. If I was to allow sendmail to accept the unresolvable domains, can I then check for an unresolvable domain with procmail and /dev/null it? Is there a nice clean way of doing this? Perhaps what you need is something like SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org/) or SpamBouncer (http://www.spambouncer.org/). I personally prefer SpamAssassin, because it is less resource hungry. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile msg96025/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
