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Re: sendmail problems.
Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
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> > |>VMS mailers sometimes send out a message with the username in all caps, I
> > |>can only assume then that sendmail or some other relaying software on the
> > |>way deCAPitates it (ouch!), and so it is prosessed as all non-caps, like
> > |>the standard seems to be. on the whole, I guess this means mixed caps is
> > |>not a good idea for usernames in the unix world, at least not on the
> > |>Internet, with standard mailers
>
> yes, domain names are case insensitive, usernames usually ARE.
>
> you can mail me at ira@SCSO.COM, or even ira@ScSo.CoM, but Ira@scso.com
> may have troubles (get's in to ira's mailbox, it does not attempt to find
> an Ira account), but the system described above had CAPed usernames, which
> means if my user is Ira, and you send to Ira, sendmail will say that user
> "ira" doesn't exist, and "Ira" will never get mail... like I said,
> sendmail drops caps.
> talking of a LINUX machine. internal mail. nothing fancy.
1. can the users ira and Ira coexist on the same linux machine at the same time?
2. if so then why would sendmail drop caps, seems a bit silly. causes just the problem i described
erlier (which if 1 is true _should_ not happen, or if 1 is false wouldn't happen because there is
no difference between ira and Ira, same user.)
Eran.
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