Sendmail - Unknow User.
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 17:24:19 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:53, Neil Marjoram wrote:
> Great thanks everyone, it's the uppercase letter in the user name, I did
> test this before posting by creating first one user called neil and it
> was OK, then I created a user called Neil, and that was OK, but it
> wasn't because it had sent this to the first username. -DOH.
>
> Incidently useradd does not complain about the uppercase letter.
>
> All the guys on our MSc course have never touched a Linux box before,
> they are all M$ people. Shame, they all have good degrees in Comp Sci
> from good uni's what are we teaching these days!
Sendmail is infinately configurable, of course if you really care
to have mixed case names:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/lfaq.html#UPPER
and as it says you'd have to also make the fix for procmail since
that is the default local mailer.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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