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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:58:00 +0000
From:      Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
To:        "Haralds Jakovels (Exchange)" <webby@exchange.telekom.lv>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Q-quick]: sendmail cannot rec. mail for usernames with uppercase-letters
Message-ID:  <320E4958.6E1F@degnet.baynet.de>
References:  <c=US%a=_%p=Lattelekom%l=EXCHANGE-960811185055Z-14@exchange.telekom.lv>

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Thanks for your reply,

yes this works with aliases and that aliases can contain uppercase-
letters, but that was NOT my problem.
I have several users and unfortunately the usernames are already build
containing uppercase-letters. So i need to work with the existing
password-database and i have to make sendmail to accept this usernames.
Again: i want sendmail to accept usernames with uppercase-letters that
       already exist and are real entries in the passwd.

Again any help is highly appreciated.

Bye, Darius.

Haralds Jakovels (Exchange) wrote:
> 
> ii,
> 
> you need to create an alias for the user. aliases are located in
> /etc/aliases file. after modifying the file, run newaliases. that's it
> =)
> 
> h.
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >i have a quick question.
> >I'm running FreeBSD-2.1. Everything works fine.
> >EXCEPT: sendmail receives and delivers emails for all users with
> >        usernames all lowercase, BUT when sending email to users
> >        with usernames that include also uppercase-letters
> >        (like Test@bla.bla), sendmail brings the following error:
> >              "Test@bla.bla... User unknown", when sending it with
> >              mail.
> >After this i (the sender) receive a mail from MAILER-DAEMON saying:
> >  .
> >  .
> >  .
> >  Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> >  .
> >  .
> >  Test@bla.bla   (unrecoverable error)
> >
> >  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >  550 Test@bla.bla... User unknown
> >
> >"Test" is a user on my machine "bla.bla"
> >
> >How can i force sendmail to deliver mail to users with
> >uppercase-letters
> >in their usernames ?
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
> >Bye, Darius.
> >
> >email: moos@degnet.baynet.de
> >



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