[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#494418: Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

[Nico Golde]

severity 494418 important
# downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions
thanks

Hi bruce,
* bruce robson <bns_robson at hotmail.com> [2008-08-09 13:50]:
> I'm running lenny/testing and have fetchmail fetching mail from pop3 mailboxes and
> passing it to exim (packages exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config and exim4-daemon-light
> all version 4.69-6).

Please send the output of fetchmail -vvv and fetchmail --configdump.

> fetchmail has just lost 3 out of 10 messages. I think because the From address
> in the message is malformed.
> 
> Fetchmail needs to be able to deliver messages with malformed From addresses.
>
> The From line is quite likely to be malformed as the pop3 server uses the SMTP
> envelope From address when placing the message in the pop3 mailbox.
> In fact the pop3 server recorded the envelope-from address in the received
> line it added.
> 
> If fetchmail can't get a valid From address by parsing the message it should make
> one up (e.g mailer-daemon at localhost).
[...] 
> /var/log/mail.err contains
> Aug  9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message bns_robson at pop1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com:2 of 10 (979 octets) (log message incomplete)
> Aug  9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or malformed
> Aug  9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message bns_robson at pop1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com:3 of 10 (1554 octets) (log message incomplete)
> Aug  9 10:21:04 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or malformed
> Aug  9 10:21:07 compaq fetchmail[2642]: reading message bns_robson at pop1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com:10 of 10 (919 octets) (log message incomplete)
> Aug  9 10:21:07 compaq fetchmail[2642]: SMTP error: 501 : domain missing or malformed
> 
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog shows 7 messages being received but doesn't show anything for the 3 lost messages.

As far as I can see this messages comes from exim (sink.c) 
not from fetchmail.

Kind regards
Nico
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