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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news.netten.net!usenet From: GMac@netten.net (Gary McCraw) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: POP Mail - Users with Capitols??? Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:42:42 GMT Organization: T-Net Lines: 34 Message-ID: <524bsi$ej9@pine.netten.net> References: <3242D48E.5BFA@he.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gmac.netten.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4939 comp.unix.misc:25234 comp.mail.misc:30528 it is possible to use UPPERCASE in the scenerio you describe. i don't want this to sound like a smarta** answer, but i don't have my sendmail book with me. if you have a copy of sendmail from o'reilly, look for case/uppercase/lowercase and it will tell you the parameter you need to change in sendmail.cf. it seems like it was in the Mlocal parameter. good luck GMac In article <3242D48E.5BFA@he.net>, shadow@he.net says... > >I just activated a couple hundred accounts on a new server. Most of them >work fine as far as E-Mail but some of them have been getting back (User >unknown) errors when they send a message to themselves (or when someone >else sends a message to them). I have found that is only the users that >have capitol letters in their name. I don't even want to think about the >trouble involved if I had to ask everyone to change their username to >all lowercase. I am hoping this is something simple to fix. I am using >popper and sendmail on a BSD/OS server. I would any appreciate if you >could E-Mail any response as well as post it as I need to get this fixed >ASAP! > >Dave Hagewood >ShadowTech Enterprises >admin@arrowweb.com