Re: Uppercase user name and SMTP

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From: Paul Colquhoun
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00

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In article <5j2u75$p00$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, rmurat@ibm.net wrote:
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|I seem to have a small problem with uppercase letters in the username.
|When sending mail locally ie 'mail Rick' or from an external domain
|ie 'Rick@bogus.com.au' i get an unknown user error message.
|
|BUT!
|I can still telnet/ftp into the server as well check for mail via POP3
|ok.
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|Is Uppercase a problem with sendmail and/or its delivery agent???
|
|Can anyone please enlighten me on this one please.
|
|
|PS I am running RedHat 4.1 on a UDB-166


Well, sendmail (the default email MTU/server software) converts all usernames 
to lowercase as part of the delivery/matching process.

This is probably what is causing your problem.

Let's not start an argument as to the desirability of this behaviour

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