fetchmail -> sendmail problem

[Graham Menhennitt]

Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
> The problem is the following : I am using fetchmail to download my
> email (from a pop3 server), and fetchmail passes the email to my local
> sendmail daemon who gives it to my local imap server (cyrus). This
> works fine. But sometimes i got a spam email, which has an
> unresolveable dns origin, and this makes my sendmail crazy in a way,
> that s

Can I suggest avoiding the problem by not using sendmail at all. I use
fetchmail to retrieve from a POP3 server and pass emails to procmail
which runs them through spamassassin and then dumps them straight into
my IMAP  (dovecot) server's directories (in maildir format).

Graham