fetchmail strangeness

[Malcolm Kay]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:01, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 10/10/03 12:23 AM, Malcolm Kay sat at the `puter and typed:
> > I'm using fetchmail to retrieve email from my isp, and getting the
> > following message in /var/log/maillog repeated at about the fetchmail
> > polling rate:
> >
> > Oct  9 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995: Syntax error in
> > mailbox address "cf4lsn at adsenger.com?" (non-printable character) Oct  9
> > 00:00:01 beta sm-mta[5995]: h98EU11h005995:
> > from=<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at beta.home>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
> > daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.home [127.0.0.1]
> >
> > I haven't been able to find the source of the reference:
> > cf4lsn at adsenger.com
>
> I'll bet it has to do with the return address of a spam message that
> was sent you.  I've seen fetchmail refuse to fetch a number of
> messages because the return address would not resolve, but it seems
> you've got one with an unprintable character in the address.
>
> When this happens, I usually break down and connect with Netscape to
> delete the message.  I've never gotten around to figuring out how to
> tell fetchmail to just shut up and flush the message, whether it
> fetches it or not.

The explanation sounds reasonable -- I'll try to pull it down 
some other way.
Thanks!

Malcolm