----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:17 pm Subject: Re: mail forwarding problem To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > zephod@xxxxxxxxxx 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@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
