Re: 517 Syntax error ??

Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 26 February 2019 11:06:14 mario chiari wrote:

> On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 05:59 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 February 2019 04:57:25 mario chiari wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I get this error message:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Most often the culprit seems to be a return receipt message, o a
> > > failed delivery message.
>
> ...
>
> > This might be the result of fetchmail being wrongfully denied the
> > ability to delete a mail successfully pulled from the pop3 server.
>
> Gene, thanks for yout reply.
>
> No,  return receipt and failed delivery msgs are not pulled from the
> pop3 server. (I see them only if I check at my provider's webmail)
>
> m.
Well, I was just throwing it out there to see if it stuck to the wall. 
I'll offer that was my best shot, so I'll go back to lurking.  Thats an 
error I've  not seem in 2 decades of using fetchmail.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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