Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:16:10 +0100 From: "Alberto De Giorgi" <albertodegiorgi@iol.it> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: R: sendmail says I'm an unknown user Message-ID: <008401bf3412$0e833a00$04f00f97@oemcomputer>
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Hi list. Part 1 I sent a message about a problem with sendmail: it was unable to identify any user but root of the system it was running on. Kindly, Thomas Uhrfelt answered: >check the alias file (/etc/alias) > >for example if you have a user called jd on your system and his email addr. >is john.doe@mydomain.com, the alias entry would be: > >john.doe: jd Are you ready for part 2 ? Part 2 The problem was not about aliases. You can use an alias for jd if sendmail is supposed to know the user jd. But what if sendmail said that jd is an unknown user? That was the question. I have found that sendmail is unable to identify a user whose name contains capital characters. When I changed my own user name from madG to madg sendmail stopped complaining. Is this a strange behavior that happens on my system only ? bye MDG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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