From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 10: 1:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF4F14D07 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19411 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:01:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:03:55 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Robert Beer Subject: Sendmail and Eight Character Username Strangeness Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just noticed something really strange on a 2.2.8 system. If I have a username that is eight characters long (e.g. abcdefgh) and I check the address: sendmail -bv abcdefgh abcdefgh... deliverable: mailer local, user abcdefgh I can also get a deliverable message if I append other characters to the end: sendmail -bv abcdefgh123 abcdefgh123... deliverable: mailer local, user abcdefgh123 Mail sent to user abcdefgh123 will create a file in /var/mail/abcdefgh123 with the permissions of user abcdefgh. Is this a known bug/problem with Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8? --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message