Re: [fetchmail-users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 8/15/07, Johan Vandeweerd <fet...@bo...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> At the beginning of this month I changed the username of one of my users
> but I forgot to change the corresponding username in the fetchmailrc
> config (so the username in the fetchmailrc config didn't exist anymore).
> For the last month fetchmail has been fetching my mails but didn't found
> a  user on the local system (errormsg see title).
> What did fetchmail do with these mails (they are not on the server)? Are
> they stored somewhere or did I loose all the mails?

It depends on a lot of things you haven't told us, not least of which
is the configuration of fetchmail and whatever SMTP server you are
running.

I would expect that, by default, your SMTP server returned a "no such
user" type error and fetchmail generated bounce message (as detailed
in the FAQ), deleting the message from the remote POP/IMAP server.  If
you consult your mail log it should tell you.

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