mail forwarding problem

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Fri May 25 17:34:38 UTC 2007


zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> ----- 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
>
>   
Google returned this:

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.17


Bob...




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