fetchmail error

m.w.chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:41:00 PDT 2004


this is the message header... it's blocking my pop3 ....
how should I poll the mailbox with this strange  "from" address?
looks more like an attack on others' mail services....

btw, are non-printable characters (big5 codes) allowed in email address?

Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:28:38 +0800
From: ??????**@[61.149.10.148]
Subject: ?????????
Sender: ??????**@[61.149.10.148]

m.w.chang wrote:
> I found this in the error log. can I (the receiver) resolve it? Seems 
> that it's more like a problem with the pop3 mail server....
> 
> 
> Dec  1 00:30:22 server fetchmail[3587]: SMTP error: 501 5.1.7 Syntax 
> error in mailbox address "????????????**@[61.149.10.148]" (non-printable 
> character)
> 
> 

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