Re: ssl with dslextreme.com attempts to send a spurious email

On Saturday 27 April 2019 17:28:45 jdow wrote:

> On 20190427 03:11:23, Matthias Andree wrote:
>   > Am 24.04.19 um 18:47 schrieb jdow:
>   >> Fetchmail feeds off to Postfix which runs spamassassin via
>   >> procmail. It is a working configuration from way back so I
>   >> elected to perpetuate it rather than fix it. {^_-}
>   >>
>   >> This (or an older version of it) has been working for a couple
>   >> decades or more.
>   >> Along about 2019-Apr-04 it started to try to send an email to a
>   >> rather enigmatic address,
>   >> JkiO@JkiO----------------------.{MUNG]us-west-2.compute.amazonaws
>   >>.com. Old logwatch reports show a few sporadic "Illegal address
>   >> syntax in SMTP command" errors in the Postfix syslog messages.
>   >> But now I am getting them nearly every poll cycle. Nothing is
>   >> going out because I do not use the local Postfix for sending
>   >> mail. It seems to be an unnecessary step in the sending process.
>   >> I believe I have determined it is fetchmail itself that is
>   >> acquiring the localhost socket to send the mail using the audit
>   >> facility.
>   >>
>   >> What configuration error might I have introduced?
>   >
>   > Joanne,
>   >
>   > you are not using a multi-user mailbox setup unless you stripped
>   > more than the password from the poll mail.dslextreme.com section.
>   > I am however wondering if 6.3.24 is really the latest fetchmail
>   > package for Scientific Linux.
>
> I am fetching from multiple users and ISPs on the source end and
> feeding a single user on the local destination end. The second ISP,
> earthlink, does not use SSL. A second fetchmail is running in another
> user's account that is not showing this problem because it is not
> using SSL, either.
>
Which could be an ssl/tls problem, there have been changes in the last 
year, and maybe your linux hasn't kept itself up to date on that? Just a 
thought but I'd be checking version numbers just in case.  My current 
install on this box is waaaay too old, but I think I have that fix in 
progress finally.

Take care JoAnne.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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