ITEM: AF9593L

Mailing to userids with capital letters.

DESC:

You have a userid whose first letter is a capital letter (Xyz).  You
are unable to mail to this userid, but you can mail out from this
userid.  You can finger this userid, and the system returns the
correct information for it.  When you telnet to your mail port and do
a verify on this userid, you are told that the user does not exist.
You have no problem login on using this userid.

SOLUTION:

You need to change the following line in your /etc/sendmail.cf file:

  Mlocal, P=/bin/bellmail, F=lsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -F $g $u

It should read:

  Mlocal, P=/bin/bellmail, F=ulsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -F $g $u

With the addition of the "u" flag on the F= statement, upper case
letters will be processed correctly by sendmail.  Once you have edited
the file.  you will need to issue the following commands:

  sendmail -bz (recompile the sendmail.cf file)
  refresh -s sendmail (refresh the sendmail subsystem)

Once you have completed these tasks, you will be able to mail to your
userid that begins with a capital letter.



Support Line: Mailing to userids with capital letters. ITEM: AF9593L

Dated: February 1995 Category: N/A

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