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We have a handful of individuals that have signed up for recurring donations via CiviCRM and paypal standard.  Our installation is on localhost.  The initial contribution (the first one) was recorded in CiviCRM and left as pending.  We updated the status after confirming receipt by Paypal.  The next month's recurring donation was not recorded in CiviCRM.  I am assuming that based on:

In order for contributions to be marked as COMPLETED, PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN) must post back to CiviCRM an acknowledgement that the contribution was completed. In order for this to happen, your CiviCRM site must be accessible on the public internet (i.e. not running on localhost or behind a firewall). Interactions with PayPal IPN are logged to a file called CiviCRM.log located in your configured Temporary Files Directory (<drupal_root>/files/civicrm/upload/CiviCRM.log by default on Drupal installations). Check this file for errors if your contribution statuses are not being set to COMPLETED.

that new records for subsequent recurring donations will not be captured by CiviCRM?  Not a problem if that is the case, just want to make certain I'm understanding it okay.