fetchmail error

[Joel Hammer]

If you feel adventuresome, you might telnet to your pop3 server, and try to
delete the file manually. (telnet server 110.)
Joel
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:05:29PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote:
> 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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