Topic: fetchmail: nameserver failure while looking for .SYNTAX-ERR

[guestHH]

Now I saw SYNTAX ERROR on my C64 way back. But what is it doing in my maillog??

I receive mail inregulary.

Anbody any clue?

Regards,
guestHH

[Dean Mumby]

What version of e-smith are you running ?

I have reported this to bugs@e-smith.com but I dont think they are going to do anything about it, Fetchmail is requesting a dns lookup on each domain in the email headers if it cant resolve a domain it downloads the email but does not inject it into the smtp so the mail stays on the isp server.

edit /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fetchmail/50multi-drop and have a look to see if the "no dns" entry is under the protocol entry if it isnt add it , if it is expand the /etc/fetchmail template and then check that it is in /etc/fetchmail . if fetchmail is running kill it and then restart it /etc/startmail

everything should work fine


$OUT .= "set postmaster \"postmaster\"\n";
        $OUT .= "set bouncemail\n";
        $OUT .= "set properties \"\"\n";
        $OUT .= "\n";
        $OUT .= "poll $SecondaryMailServer\n";
        $OUT .= $envelopeSpec;
        $OUT .= "    protocol POP3\n";
        $OUT .= "    no dns\n";
        $OUT .= "    localdomains $locals\n";
        $OUT .= "       username $SecondaryMailAccount ";
        $OUT .= "password $SecondaryMailPassword to * here\n";

Good Luck

Dean Mumby

[guestHH]

Hi Dean,

Applied it as you stated. Wil report back with any results.

Thanks!
guestHH

[guestHH]

Hi again Dean,

No more entries int my maillog found after applying your suggestion.

Thanks!
Regards,
guestHH

[Paul Nesbit]

Dean,

Dean Mumby wrote:
>
> What version of e-smith are you running ?
>
> I have reported this to bugs@e-smith.com but I dont think
> they are going to do anything about it, Fetchmail is
> requesting a dns lookup on each domain in the email headers

You reported this to bugs, and I replied to you noting that
we have added the 'no dns' option to the fetchmail configuration
in the current release.  

If for whatever you cannot upgrade your server, you can
create a custom template to prevent dns lookups on multi-drop
mail.  (As you have shown RequestedDeletion, and as I had shown you
prior to that.)


Regards,

Paul