Brian J. Sayatovic wrote:

> This is the message I'm gettign in fetchmail.  Perhaps this
> is what was a
> bit uglier in fetchPOP?
>
> 25/09/03 23:09:42 ERROR fetchmail.one.net: one.net Message
> could not be
> processed due to an error parsing the addresses. Subject: Newest Net
> Security Patch From: Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Section
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A few things to note.
1) This mail is almost certainly a Trojan Horse as Microsoft do not send out
patches by email. See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
policy/swdist.asp. I would recommend you DO NOT open it.

2) The parse error occurs when any of the addresses in the mail are
malformed. You could set the logging level to debug so that the
ParseException is recorded. If your ISP supports browsing mail (WebMail),
you could examine the mail's headers to confirm that it is in error.

3) fetchmail will have assigned this mail a status of undeliverable and
processed message according to the settings of the <undeliverable> tag in
the config. It was NOT delivered.

> 25/09/03 23:09:42 INFO  fetchmail.one.net: Attempting
> delivery of message
> with id. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 25/09/03 23:09:42 INFO  fetchmail.one.net: Ignoring recipient
> header. Using
> configured recipient as new envelope recipient - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

These are related to the next fetched message, which was delivered
correctly.

> Obviously, I don't care that the recipient parsing is failign
> since I've configured a recipient to be used regardless.

As explained above, mail will be treated as undeliverable if any of the
addresses fail to parse. The value of ignorercpt-header= does not affect
this.

> Should I be worried for any reason?

About fetchmail no, about the contents of the failing mail, yes.

-- Steve


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