Non-Resolving email addresses

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 15 01:10:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:31:04PM -0500, SlackRat wrote:
> Occasionally, however, the spammer uses an address that does not
> resolve and FetchMail gives me a "Fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.1.8
> Domain of sender address mary-OkUsnttiWsnz+pZb47iToQ at public.gmane.org fails to resolve"
> 
> Fetchmail leaves such messages on the fastmail server and to get rid
> of it I have to browser into Fastmail and manually delete the
> offending items.

man fetchmail	(-Z option or 'antispam' keyword)

> Fastmail will not allow Freebie users like me to POP.

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