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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news1.saix.net!news.ibi.co.za!patsat.isis.co.za!patsat.isis.co.za!not-for-mail From: pat@patsat.isis.co.za (Pat Verner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: POP Mail - Users with Capitols??? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.mail.misc Date: 24 Sep 1996 18:44:35 +0200 Organization: Pats System BBS Lines: 35 Message-ID: <52935j$3iu@patsat.isis.co.za> References: <3242D48E.5BFA@he.net> <51vdkl$3e3@news.ios.com> Reply-To: pat@isis.co.za NNTP-Posting-Host: prv.isis.co.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4971 comp.unix.misc:25275 comp.mail.misc:30621 You will find that the internet e-mail is likely to munge all the account names to lower case anyway -- I suggest that you use procmail or similar to convert all incoming mail to lower case, and then use an alias file to translate the required mixed case names ... =Pat Ralph Freshour (rfresh@mail.idt.net) wrote: : RFC 821 (for SMTP) says case does matter with user names - Smith is : *not* the same as smith. I would conclude the same is true for the : pop3 spec although I don't have it handy to look up at the moment. : --Ralph : ShadowTech Enterprises <shadow@he.net> wrote: : >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 -- Pat Verner pat@isis.co.za pat_verner@f36.n7106.z5.fidonet.org ---------------- **** Linux Advocate Extraordinaire **** -----------------