From: d.hill on
Quoting mouss <mouss(a)ml.netoyen.net>:

> Russell Jones wrote:
>> Actually that's all the logs show when sending to a non-existent address
>> that resides on the same physical server, but I got it figured it.
>>
>> Believe it or not, it was actually my AVG antivirus. It turns out that
>> when scanning outgoing mail, by default AVG will use its own "Auto SMTP
>> server". For some reason it was preventing my client from receiving the
>> errors. When disabling this "auto smtp server", the popups regarding
>> invalid user is received properly by Thunderbird and Windows Mail.
>>
>> Go figure.
>
> yeah....
>
> just to "enrich the knowledge base", what Av was this?

AVG (http://www.avg.com). It was mentioned.

From: mouss on
d.hill(a)yournetplus.com wrote:
> Quoting mouss <mouss(a)ml.netoyen.net>:
>
>> Russell Jones wrote:
>>> Actually that's all the logs show when sending to a non-existent address
>>> that resides on the same physical server, but I got it figured it.
>>>
>>> Believe it or not, it was actually my AVG antivirus. It turns out that
>>> when scanning outgoing mail, by default AVG will use its own "Auto SMTP
>>> server". For some reason it was preventing my client from receiving the
>>> errors. When disabling this "auto smtp server", the popups regarding
>>> invalid user is received properly by Thunderbird and Windows Mail.
>>>
>>> Go figure.
>>
>> yeah....
>>
>> just to "enrich the knowledge base", what Av was this?
>
> AVG (http://www.avg.com). It was mentioned.
>

yeah. me silly. I was about to buy glasses. fortunately, I realised
that I should buy a brain instead :)