Subject: Re: sendmail: Is this a bug? "Unknown User" or is my Sendmail.cf wrong?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org, mjl@maschndrohtzaun.emsi.priv.at>
From: Gerald C. Simmons <simmons@darykon.cet.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/23/2002 11:27:22
> | > I'm currently running NetBSD-1.5.2. Today, I just created a new user to be
> | > used as a mail-list receiver - uClinux (Note the capital C!)
> |  
> |  SMTP protocol and DNS are case insensitive, so you can use
> |  uClinux@domain, UCLINUX@DOMAIN or uCLiNuX@dOmAiN as your list address.
>
>   No. The host name and domain part are case insensitive, the user
> part, however, is whatever the receiver wants. I remember being caught
> by a similar problem, that is sendmail not working well with mixed case
> aliases -- after talking to the sendmail maintainers, they put in a
> warning to that regard in the docs.

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Thanks! I figured it was something like that. Great Information!

Gerry
simmons@darykon.cet.com