mail forwarding problem

[Les Mikesell]

zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:

>>> 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)
>>>


>> 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...)
> 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.

The quick fix is to add a line like:
sblackwell: SBlackwell
to your /etc/aliases file
and run newaliases or restart sendmail.

This will tell it to deliver mail addressed to sblackwell to the 
SBlackwell address instead.  You may run into some other similar quirks 
later, though.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com