[Kolab-devel] no warning when sending mail to invalid mailaddress via smtp

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 10:49, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > When sending an email to a valid user and cc to an invalid local user no
> > such warning/error message appears and as user I would think both
> > recipient would get this mail. But according to mail.log postfix refused
> > to accept the invalid recipient:
> >
> > Mar 18 05:14:18 ugs1 postfix/smtpd[27098]: 7B9689D08E: reject: RCPT from
> > localhost[127.0.0.1]: 450 4.1.1 <foobar at foo.bar>: Recipient address
> > rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<test1 at foo.bar>
> > to=<foobar at foo.bar> proto=ESMTP helo=<localhost>
> >
> > Am I wrong or should horde inform the user that not all recipient will
> > get a copy of the mail just sent?
>
> Horde uses a central call to the PEAR Mail package to send the  
> messages, unless we have to send individual messages for all  
> recipients, e.g. when sending encrypted messages. The result of this  
> call is checked and any error is displayed to the user.
> If you don't get an error, either the SMTP server didn't return one  
> (and only logged it), or the Mail package didn't catch it properly.

The log message above is a very strong hint that postfix actually did send a 
reject, so I suspect a problem somewhere on the php side of things.
Also, Sönke, you are sure that this is the Horde client from localhost 
connecting and not some other piece of software?


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