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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:50:55 +0300
From:      "Haralds  Jakovels (Exchange)" <webby@exchange.telekom.lv>
To:        "'FreeBSD-questions'" <questions@freebsd.org>, "'moos@degnet.baynet.de'" <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
Subject:   RE: [Q-quick]: sendmail cannot rec. mail for usernames with uppercase-letters
Message-ID:  <c=US%a=_%p=Lattelekom%l=EXCHANGE-960811185055Z-14@exchange.telekom.lv>

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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.

>----------
>From: 	Darius Moos[SMTP:moos@degnet.baynet.de]
>Sent: 	Sunday, August 11, 1996 4:03 PM
>To: 	FreeBSD-questions
>Subject: 	[Q-quick]: sendmail cannot rec. mail for usernames with
>uppercase-letters
>
>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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