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

[Johan V. <fet...@bo...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I use postfix and courier.

My fetchmailrc looks like this:

    set no bouncemail
    set daemon 600
    defaults:
      antispam -1
      batchlimit 100

    poll pluto.sygmanet.be with protocol pop3 user "myemail" there with
    password "mypassword" is myusername here

In the logs I find things like this:

    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: awakened at Sun 12 Aug 2007
    06:12:01 AM CEST
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: Server certificate
    verification error: self signed certificate
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: Server certificate
    verification error: certificate has expired
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: 1 message for
    myemailaddress at remoteserver (20949 octets).
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19248]: connect from
    localhost[127.0.0.1]
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19248]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
    from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 550 5.1.1 <oldusername@localhost>:
    Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table;
    from=<fre...@uc...> to=<oldusername@localhost>
    proto=ESMTP helo=<localserver>
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: reading message
    remoteusername@remoteserver:1 of 1 (20949 octets) (log message
    incomplete)
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: SMTP error: 550 5.1.1
    <oldusername@localhost>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in
    local recipient table
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19251]: connect from
    localhost[127.0.0.1]
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19251]: EBAE7214DF2:
    client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
    Aug 12 06:12:01 cyclops fetchmail[3067]: mail from
    MAILER-DAEMON@localserver bounced to fetchmail
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/cleanup[19252]: EBAE7214DF2:
    message-id=<20070812041201.EBAE7214DF2@localserver>
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19251]: disconnect from
    localhost[127.0.0.1]
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/qmgr[2967]: EBAE7214DF2: from=<>,
    size=2340, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/smtpd[19248]: 0B354214DF4:
    client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/cleanup[19252]: 0B354214DF4:
    message-id=<be1a01c7dca5$f0d405d0$0fff6d29@fredcoxaaxue>
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/local[19253]: EBAE7214DF2:
    to=<fetchmail@localserver>, orig_to=<fetchmail>, relay=local,
    delay=0.13, delays=0.1/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
    (delivered to maildir)
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/qmgr[2967]: EBAE7214DF2: removed
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/qmgr[2967]: 0B354214DF4:
    from=<fre...@uc...>, size=21319, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops fetchmail[3067]:  flushed
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/local[19253]: 0B354214DF4:
    to=<fetchmail@localhost>, relay=local, delay=0.17,
    delays=0.17/0/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
    Aug 12 06:12:02 cyclops postfix/qmgr[2967]: 0B354214DF4: removed

Where are those bouncemessage sent to? Or how could I have noticed this 
earlier? The old mails are lost, I presume?

Thanks
Johan Vandeweerd