From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 28 01:13:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25648 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peak.mountin.net ([207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25621 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id DAA12400; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:13:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from aridius-112.isdn.mke.execpc.com(169.207.66.239) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma012398; Mon Sep 28 03:13:02 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980928031154.00730c6c@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:11:54 -0500 To: "David H. Brierley" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Strange popper behavior Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19980927051540.0072725c@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:56 PM 9/27/98 -0400, David H. Brierley wrote: >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. I did say password. A while back I did setup an account for myself with caps. Worked fine, but I agree on doing this for a production system. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message