[lug] Email/User issue

[Justin]

I ended up just having the person use the lowercase login name, it's 
not that big of a deal either way. But, now I'm wondering about the 
uppercase first letter issue. I don't think the virtual or aliased user 
would work either. Ultimately, I don't think a mail spool will be made 
for "User" so it will never get mail no matter how I try to direct it 
there. I could I suppose, somehow make the "User" mail programs read 
from the "user" mail spool, but that would mean I'd have to have access 
to whatever program the end user uses for email. 

Another thing I was wondering, is what exactly constitutes for a non-
existant user? I mean the user I had was a valid user on the box, but 
the only thing different from my other users was that this one didn't 
get a file created for it in /var/spool/mail/. Even when I touched a 
file "User" into /var/spool/mail and gave it the right perms it still 
did not get delivered. I'm totally confusing myself with all this now, 
hopefully you all can understand what I'm trying to spit out.  :)

Justin


> email addresses are supposed to be case insensitive.  You could take 
the
> system dictator approach and require the user to use "user" instead of
> "User"
> 
> I'm curious to know if an entry in the virtusertable would work since
> sendmail is not expecting case sensitive usernames (i.e. is sendmail
> going to see user at jackmoves.com   user as the entry in the host table.
> 
> You could also try an alias instead of a virtuser.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> "Trever C. Trader" wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
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