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#! rnews 1387 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!Aladdin!proweb!usenet From: "Richard Drage" <richard@proweb.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail replacement Date: 11 Oct 1996 09:53:14 GMT Organization: Proweb (UK) Ltd Lines: 17 Message-ID: <01bbb75a$036dfca0$288eb0c2@Richard.Proweb> References: <325ABB91.1BB6@ais-gwd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: red.proweb.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:89196 comp.unix.misc:25510 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1397 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5094 > We are currently running Worldgroup on BSDI 2.1 for our e-mail > service but are in the process of taking it down. Problem: Our users > have capital letters and symbols in their e-mail names (. & _) and I > understand sendmail will not deliver to users w/caps. Usernames are > limited to 16 characters and no symbols, etc... You could add an alias in /etc/aliases for each user :-( Sendmail will handle .'s & _'s if they're aliased to a passwd account. eg. fred.bloggs: fredbloggs Regards Richard richard@proweb.net