[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#383870: fetchmail: Fetchmail duplicates my SPAM every 10 minutes - ARGH!

[Helge Hafting]

Matthias Andree wrote:
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> Helge Hafting wrote:
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>> Still, rejecting on TO address is tricky, mailing list mail is usually not
>> addressed to me.
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> Unfortunately, you haven't shown your configuration file yet.
> I suspect you're using a wildcarded multidrop configuration.
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Here is my /etc/fetchmailrc:

#Old mail server
poll popn.c2i.net protocol POP3
user zzzz there has password xxxx, is 
helge at tenkende-august.homelinux.net here

#current ISP server
poll mail.broadpark.no protocol POP3
user aaaa there has password aaaa, is 
helge at tenkende-august.homelinux.net here



Perhaps this setup isn't the smartest? 
Still, it'd be nice if fetchmail would delete successfully delivered 
messages
when exim goes sour. That would at least avoid message multiplication,
although I would probably not get any mail through if all the x first
messages are bad.  That'd be a exim problem though, not a fetchmail fault.

Looks like I solved the problem by making exim accept 100 bad messages
instead of just 4 before giving up.  Still a DOS waiting to happen.

Helge Hafting