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Re: sendmail and case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Blizzard)
Fri Aug 11 16:48:01 1995
To: Marius@doulosgeri.com
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 1995 13:08:33 -0000."
<199508091719.NAA00171@UnixServer.doulosgeri.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 20:05:54 -0400
From: Christopher Blizzard <cdblizza@mailbox.syr.edu>
In message <199508091719.NAA00171@UnixServer.doulosgeri.com>,
"Marius" writes:
>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?
>
It's not a good idea to have account names with capital letters in
it, but if you want to do this anyway. :) Sendmail converts all
names to lower case before making final delivery. To prevent this,
you can change the /etc/sendmail.cf to preserve case before delivery.
There is going to be a line that says something like:
Mlocal, P=/usr/sbin/deliver, F=lsDFMrmn, S=10, R=20/40,
A=deliver $u
This is the line that tells sendmail what program to use to do local
delivery. Sendmail never does this by itself. You have to add the
letter 'u' after the F= line. So this would read F=lsDFMrmnu.
>Marius@doulosgeri.com
>
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