Re: 517 Syntax error ??

On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 11:11 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> Gene wrote:
> > > fetchmail: reading message [email protected]@pop3.mydomain.net:1 of
> > > 40 (1552 octets) (log message incomplete)
> > > fetchmail: MDA returned nonzero status 67
> > > fetchmail:  not flushed
> > > 517 Syntax error.
> > 
> > This might be the result of fetchmail being wrongfully denied the
> > ability to delete a mail successfully pulled from the pop3 server.
> 
> I get the impression it's more a complaint from the party that fetchmail
> is passing the email to;  the Mail Delivery Agent.

How do I check if it so? 

> 
> Have you seen http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3
> that gives details of how to report a problem?
I just checked it (thanks and sorry I did not do before)

Now I get:

[----]$ env LC_ALL=C fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.3.26+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL-SSLv2+HESIOD+NLS+KRB5.

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond,
                   Robert M. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux fedora-pc 4.19.12-301.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 01:58:57 UTC 2018
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Taking options from command line and /***/***/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 600 seconds
Logfile is /***/***/logs/fetchmail.log
Idfile is /***/***/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to vmail.
Options for retrieving from ***@[email protected]:
  True name of server is pop3.mydomain.net.
  Protocol is POP3 (using service 110).
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
  Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush
off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
  Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
  Messages will be delivered with "/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail  -i -f %F --
%T".
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.