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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index babc6bb8..d1e86088 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ content="Frequently asked questions about fetchmail."/> Page</a></td> <td width="30%" align="center">To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a></td> -<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/31 12:40:12 $</td> +<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/11/12 17:40:07 $</td> </tr> </table> @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ messages over and over?</a><br/> same?</a><br/> <a href="#O11">O11. I keep getting messages that say "Repoll immediately" in my logs.</a><br/> +<a href="#O12">O12. Fetchmail no longer expunges mail on a 451 SMTP response.</a><br/> <h1>Answers:</h1> @@ -3427,8 +3428,8 @@ messages the same?</a></h2> the received date from the last Received header.</p> <hr /> -<a name="#O11">O11. I keep getting messages that say "Repoll -immediately" in my logs.</a><br/> +<h2><a name="#O11">O11. I keep getting messages that say "Repoll +immediately" in my logs.</a></h2> <p>This is your server barfing on the CAPA probe that fetchmail sends.</p> If you run fetchmail in daemon mode (say "set daemon 600"), you will @@ -3437,6 +3438,31 @@ get the message only once per run.</p> <p>If you set an authentication method explicitly (say, with <code>auth password</code>), you will never get the message.</p> +<hr /> +<h2><a name="#O12">O12. Fetchmail no longer expunges mail on a 451 SMTP response.</a></h2> + +<p>This is a feature, not a bug.</p> + +<p>Any 4xx response (like 451) indicates a transient (temporary) error. +This means that the mail could be accepted if retried later. Lookup +failures are normally transient errors as a mail should not get +rejected if a dns server is unreachable or down.</p> + +<p>A permanent reject response is of the form 5xx (like 550).</p> + +<p>You could tell your smtp server to not lookup any addresses if you are +not keen on checking the sender addresses. This problem typically +occurs if your mail server is not checking the sender addresses, but +your local server is.</p> + +<p>Or, you could change the response code to a permanent reject for +lookup failures if you want the previous situation to continue.</p> + +<p>Or, you could check your nameserver configuration and query logs for +dns errors.</p> + +<p>All these issues are not related to fetchmail directly.</p> + <hr/> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" summary="Canned page footer"> <tr> @@ -3444,7 +3470,7 @@ get the message only once per run.</p> Page</a></td> <td width="30%" align="center">To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a></td> -<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/10/31 12:40:12 $</td> +<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2002/11/12 17:40:07 $</td> </tr> </table> |