[lug] Email/User issue

[Trever C. Trader]

you could try editing your /etc/mail/virtusertable and creating a record
for "user" to be "User":

user at jackmoves.com		User

hope that helps.


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Atkinson, Chip wrote:

> I think I remember hearing that email addresses are not case sensitive.  If
> that's the case, it would make sense that sendmail drops everything to lower
> case.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin [mailto:glow at jackmoves.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:05 AM
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: [lug] Email/User issue
> > 
> > 
> > I have an odd one here and didn't really know how to set the 
> > subject. I 
> > recently added a user to my box that wanted a capital first 
> > letter for 
> > their login name (ie: 'User' as opposed to 'user'). Well everything 
> > works, except the user cannot recieve email. The user can send email 
> > fine just not recieve it. My mail server returns the mail as 
> > undeliverable. I looked in /var/spool/mail/ and no file is being 
> > created for this user, I would expect the file 
> > /var/spool/mail/User to 
> > be there. I even tried manually creating /var/spool/mail/User but no 
> > dice. Now I went and created the same username but with no capital 
> > first letter (ie: just 'user' and not 'User'). This account 
> > works just 
> > fine, once you send an email to it the file /var/spool/mail/user is 
> > created and the user recieves email with no problems. I made another 
> > test user with a capital first letter for more testing and 
> > got the same 
> > results as I stated above. Any idea why this is happening? Maybe I 
> > don't know enough about how mail systems work or something? I am 
> > running Postfix version 20000608 and my tests were done thru the Pine 
> > mailer program.
> > 
> > Justin
> > 
> > -----
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