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From: nriley@roadrunner.tiac.net (Nicholas Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Uppercase usernames?
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:05:16 -0400
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I'm having a problem getting sendmail to register usernames with initial
caps (Sabi instead of sabi); it gives me a "user unknown" message, and
tries to dump the message to SysAdm, which of course starts with a capital
letter, so even the bounce message goes nowhere.
anchor: {2} % telnet localhost smtp
[snip]220 ESMTP spoken here
vrfy Sabi
550 Sabi... User unknown
vrfy sabi
550 sabi... User unknown
vrfy "Sabi"
550 "Sabi"... User unknown
So in an effort to find out what was going on, I stuck "sabi: Sabi" in
/etc/aliases, and now:
anchor: {2} % telnet localhost smtp
[snip]220 ESMTP spoken here
vrfy Sabi
250 <sabi@anchor.marblehead.com>
vrfy sabi
250 <sabi@anchor.marblehead.com>
[snip]
but...
anchor: {3} % mail sabi
Subject: blah
blahblah
.
EOT
anchor: {4} % sabi... User unknown
Any idea what's going on, and preferably how to fix it? Don't send mail
to sabi@anchor.marblehead.com, as it doesn't work. :)
<sabi
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> Nicholas Riley < > CI$: 72531,3633 <72531.3633@compuserve.com> <
> nriley@roadrunner.tiac.net < > eWorld: Sabinasata <sabinasata@eworld.com> <
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