Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:11:54 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: "David H. Brierley" <dave@galaxia.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange popper behavior Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980928031154.00730c6c@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809272249270.1364-100000@trantor.galaxia.co m> References: <3.0.3.32.19980927051540.0072725c@207.227.119.2>
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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
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