[plug] Filtering no messages

[Russell Clarke]

Bret,
        Have a look to see if you have any boxen with badly setup mail servers
As i had the very same problem when i had a badly mis-configured setup basically
it involved sendmail and fetchmail,

1) I had fetchmail checking one of my pop accounts.(fetchmail used my local smtp
server to handle the local delivery)
2) Sendmail was setup to block ALL incoming email, no matter where it came from.
    - Fetchmail was trying to deliver my POP email and then sendmail blocked the
email from coming in.
       and then trying to send bounce messages to all the people who had sent me
email in the first place.
3) Due to another configuration the end result was email with no content and no
headers.
    The mail also sat in the send queue (sendmail was unable to send these bounce
messages correctly)
    and every time sendmail retried its mail delivery me and everyone else got
those annoying emails

This lasted a couple of weeks and about 10 - 20 people were effected,

I think that somebody (either you or your colleges) have something's wrong with
their smtp setup.

Russell C




Bret Busby wrote:

> >From time to time (a few each day), I receive messages:
>
> "
> Date:
> From:
> To:
> "
>
> That is what shows with View->Long Headers in kmail.
> With View->All headers, the message panel is blank.
>
> Is there a way that these non-messages can be filtered, to stop delivery (eg a
> procmail filter -> /dev/null)?
>
> The messages do not show in the maillog file, so that some form of
> identification of the messages, cannot be found from that source.
>
> It had occurred to me that they could be created by kmail, but then Anne told
> me that she and her colleagues sometimes receives them at her workplace, using
> various versions of MS Outlook, their workplace standard. The only thing that
> both have in common, is that email at her workplace, and, some of our email
> still, is routed via iinet.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Bret Busby
> ..........