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:
>
> > The default antispam list is empty - I'm not sure what you're thinking
> > to achieve with this.
> >
> I let my local mailclient handle the spam (move to spamfolder) so I have
> more control over my spam.

Yes, but you're replacing the empty list with a list containing the
value "-1".  I'm not sure what fetchmail will do with this internally
("fetchmail --configdump" will tell you), but it may just bite you
later.

> Fetchmail is run systemwide as root.

Which is a bad idea and if you were running a vaguely recent version
it would be warning you about this.  However your logs suggest that
it's being run as the user fetchmail - either that or the fetchmailrc
file you provided isn't the one you're using.

> In /etc/aliases everything is
> aliased to root and the final statement is an alias from root to the old
> username that doesn't exist anymore.

Ah, the old game of shooting yourself in the foot with a rocket
launcher :)  I'm afraid there's nothing fetchmail can do to protect
you from this.

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
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