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Re: sendmail and case

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Shaver)
Fri Aug 11 12:05:00 1995

From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.com>
To: Marius@doulosgeri.com
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508091719.NAA00171@UnixServer.doulosgeri.com> from "Marius" at Aug 9, 95 01:08:33 pm

Marius mumbled something vague about:
> OK..  I've been having a problem with Sendmail.  I couldn't receive 
> mail in any account other than root, or so I thought.  With an 
> account that is mixed case or all capitals, I get a user unknown 
> error, but with an account that is all lower case the mail is 
> delivered fine, no matter what case the address is written in.  I 
> want users to be able to have mixed case names.  Can anyone tell me 
> how to set up sendmail to allow for this?

(BTW, this doesn't really belong on the linux-net mailing list.
comp.mail.sendmail or something similar might be better.)

Add "u" to the F= set for the mailer.

Mike

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