Re: Sendmail - Unknow User.

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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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx



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