El Capitan, SMTP & Fetchmail

[hwojtek]

I've ran out of ideas.
It was very simple on 10.5: fetchmail downloads mail for local OS X Server users, the mail gets delivered to mailboxes, job done.

Now I've switched to El Capitan and ran into problems. Since there is no fetchmail binary included in El Capitan, I downloaded the source and built it myself. It works OK, but fails to deliver to local mailboxes. The emails are downloaded from the ISP mailboxes, but they get lost somewhere between fetchmail and postfix. Here is a sample log:

Nov  1 18:01:20 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP> RCPT TO:<wojtek@localhost>
Nov  1 18:01:20 miniserver postfix/smtpd[5176]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[::1]: 550 5.1.1 <wojtek@localhost>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<SRS0=X44E=K3=mail-withlove.com=sare0006962390-wojtek=mydomain.com@mymailprovider.com> to=<wojtek@localhost> proto=ESMTP helo=<miniserver.home>
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/smtpd[5198]: 6A69010AC57: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/cleanup[5184]: 6A69010AC57: message-id=<20151101170120.8353110AC46@miniserver.home>
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/qmgr[383]: 6A69010AC57: from=<>, size=5136, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/smtp[5189]: 8353110AC46: to=<SRS0=X44E=K3=mail-withlove.com=sare0006962390-wojtek=mydomain.com@mymailprovider.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.91, delays=0/0/0/0.91, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 6A69010AC57)
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/qmgr[383]: 8353110AC46: removed
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <wojtek@localhost>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: can't even send to wojtek!
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP> RSET

Users, domains and e-mail addresses are set up in Server app. I can send from "anyuser@localhost" to "wojtek@localhost" and it will be delivered to my mailbox - so the log stating user unknown in local recipient table is not right. I honestly have no idea what I did wrong.

 

[eemnee]

Locate your .fetchmailrc .
it has a line or part with user "username@yourdomain.com" is "internalname" here.
change "internalname" to "internalname@myinternaldomain.com". In my case on the mac server it was "internalname@MacServerName.local"

 

[hwojtek]

Oh, thanks for this!
I did solve this problem a couple of weeks ago (just a second ago I had honestly ZERO idea how), but indeed it involved this setting exactly. I know now it was not a stupid coincidence and can finally put this into my "documentation", in case all my backups failed and I had to start over again...

 

[eemnee]

Oh, thanks for this!
I did solve this problem a couple of weeks ago (just a second ago I had honestly ZERO idea how), but indeed it involved this setting exactly. I know now it was not a stupid coincidence and can finally put this into my "documentation", in case all my backups failed and I had to start over again...

You are welcome, Wojtek. Good you found it yourself. It made me crazy for some hours. For everybody else, this seems to be the exact way:
Check, if you have the "is blabla here" address in your mail server. Check exactly, how the notation is. Take that notation for your fetchmail.rc. Fully qualified, if needed.

 

[PixelAgent007]

I've ran out of ideas.
It was very simple on 10.5: fetchmail downloads mail for local OS X Server users, the mail gets delivered to mailboxes, job done.

Now I've switched to El Capitan and ran into problems. Since there is no fetchmail binary included in El Capitan, I downloaded the source and built it myself. It works OK, but fails to deliver to local mailboxes. The emails are downloaded from the ISP mailboxes, but they get lost somewhere between fetchmail and postfix. Here is a sample log:

Nov  1 18:01:20 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP> RCPT TO:<wojtek@localhost>
Nov  1 18:01:20 miniserver postfix/smtpd[5176]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[::1]: 550 5.1.1 <wojtek@localhost>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<SRS0=X44E=K3=mail-withlove.com=sare0006962390-wojtek=mydomain.com@mymailprovider.com> to=<wojtek@localhost> proto=ESMTP helo=<miniserver.home>
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/smtpd[5198]: 6A69010AC57: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/cleanup[5184]: 6A69010AC57: message-id=<20151101170120.8353110AC46@miniserver.home>
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/qmgr[383]: 6A69010AC57: from=<>, size=5136, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/smtp[5189]: 8353110AC46: to=<SRS0=X44E=K3=mail-withlove.com=sare0006962390-wojtek=mydomain.com@mymailprovider.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.91, delays=0/0/0/0.91, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA(smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 6A69010AC57)
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver postfix/qmgr[383]: 8353110AC46: removed
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP< 550 5.1.1 <wojtek@localhost>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: can't even send to wojtek!
Nov  1 18:01:21 miniserver fetchmail[5174]: SMTP> RSET

Users, domains and e-mail addresses are set up in Server app. I can send from "anyuser@localhost" to "wojtek@localhost" and it will be delivered to my mailbox - so the log stating user unknown in local recipient table is not right. I honestly have no idea what I did wrong.

Hello hwojtek, I'm using El Capitan Server too and just installed fetchmail. If I try to launch fetchmail, it says:

sh-3.2# sudo fetchmail

fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.

fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.


In my .fetchmailrc are no mistakes, but I think the directory is wrong.

Where is YOUR .fetchmailrc located?
Or can you give your full fetchmal configuration to me??