[lug] Email/User issue

[Atkinson, Chip]

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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