mail forwarding problem

[zephod at cfl.rr.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
Date: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:17 pm
Subject: Re: mail forwarding problem
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>

> zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > I wanted to have the logwatch cron results mailed to me instead 
> of root
> > so I edited /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf to add this line:
> > 
> > MailTo=SBlackwell
> > 
> > Just for a sanity check
> > $ whoami
> > SBlackwell
> > $ uname -n
> > mylocalmachine
> > 
> > <not really but just to show I checked that it matches the mail
message>> 
> > but root keeps getting returned mail saying
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > sblackwell
> >     (reason: 550 5.1.1 <sblackwell at mylocalmachine>... User unknown)
> >     (expanded from: sblackwell)
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > The thing that stikes me is that my user name got changed from
> > SBlackwell in the conf file to sblackwell in the mail message.
> > 
> > Anybody else seeing this? Any comments?
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> By default, e-mail addresses are converted to all lower case. You
> will have problems with mixed or upper case user names and/or e-mail
> addresses. It is possible to reconfigure your mail local mail server
> to preserve the case, but it would be better to change your user
> name to all lower case. (Mixed case user names break a bunch of
> specifications...)
> 
> Mikkel

Hmmm... This is my work computer and everything else here is Windows
based, including the file servers that have shares I connect to and the
exchange e-mail server. I chose SBlackwell as my user name because that
is my assigned network name and I think I would have a bigger set of
problems if I used something else. I don't want to have problems in that
area and as a result, be forced to use Windows by corporate decree.

So do I need to look at configuring sendmail? From what I've read on
this list, that's not the easiest thing to do.

Steve