Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:04:56 +1100 From: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: News Subsystem <news@bmccane.maxbaud.net>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uppercase characters in logins Message-ID: <3515B538.459433F0@scitec.com.au> References: <199803222344.RAA20309@bmccane.maxbaud.net>
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News Subsystem wrote:
> I am supporting several mailing lists on my machine. For some reason
> I cannot send mail to people that have uppercase letters in their login
> names. They claim they are getting mail from other people, so I assume that
> my machine is at fault. I am using standard sendmail with basically the
> standard sendmail.cf (my domain has been added along with the spam rules).
All (well at least all I know of) mail daemons convert the username to
lower case before delivering email into a local mailbox. You should
never allow accounts to be created with uppercase letters if you want
your system to function normally. Note that when all lowercase letters
are used for the account, the email address may have uppercase in it
since sendmail will make everything lowercase.
Cheers.
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