Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:56:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "David H. Brierley" <dave@galaxia.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange popper behavior Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809272249270.1364-100000@trantor.galaxia.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980927051540.0072725c@207.227.119.2>
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> There was absolutely nothing wrong with the mailbox, it just refused
> to work with the password, which was alphabetic, for the account.
> Change "T" to "t" and it worked fine.
Slow down a minute! When you say you changed a "T" to a "t", are you
saying the username had a capital letter in it or the password?
Having a username with uppercase letters will not normally work if
you are using sendmail as the transport because sendmail maps the
usernames to lower case before attempting local delivery. Now I
haven't played with the internals of sendmail in a while, but I do
not advise anyone to create usernames that have mixed upper and lower
case. I wouldn't be surprised if other mail transport systems had
the same restrictions.
--
David H. Brierley
dave@galaxia.com
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