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Re: sendmail problems.



On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

|>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 00:11:19 +0300 (IDT)
|>From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>
|>To: Eran <limbo@actcom.co.il>
|>Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il
|>Subject: Re: sendmail problems.
|>
|>On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Eran wrote:
|>
|>> Hi all.
|>> A friend of mine recently had a problem with sending mail. users could send to root and that's all. no user to 
|>> user or user to root or even root to user mail. he got user unknwon errors.it turned out that the problem was 
|>> with upper cased usernames. that is the first letter of every user name was in upper case. why is that a 
|>> problem? or is it something well known that i simply missed?
|>
|>the standard in unix is all non-caps, but in other systems it may be
|>all-caps, mixed, or case-insensitive (see VMS, Delphi's propriety
|>usernames etc.)
|>
|>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
i whanted to ask - sometimes i get mails with my domain name in caps
is that case insensitive?
|>
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