[lug] Email/User issue

[Hugh Brown]

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.