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Subject: Re: [Urgent] Need help Sendmail -> Postfix
From: Simon J Mudd (sjmuddpobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 00:10:28 CDT

Liviu.Daiaimar.ro (Liviu Daia) writes:

> On 21 June 2000, Oliver Schade <schadembi-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Strike! Error one (NIS) fixed, an other one raised:
> >
> > [...]
> > Jun 21 19:19:24 smtp1 postfix/local[3468]: 4235D78A3:
> > to=<Els-la00+infosmtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net>, relay=local, delay=11,
> > status=bounced (unknown user: "els-la00+info")
> > Jun 21 19:19:24 smtp1 postfix/local[3469]: 5A96A789F:
> > to=<Els-la00smtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net>, relay=local, delay=11,
> > status=bounced (unknown user: "els-la00")
> > [...]
> >
> > How do I enable accounts with one or more uppercase-letters?
>
> You don't. Historically, it never worked. And since sendmail does
> the same thing as Postfix (namely it changes the local part of addresses
> to lower case), chances are it will never work either.

Unfortunately sendmail does have a switch to disable the conversion to
lowercase. I was caught out by this when a package used at the office
required some of the accounts to have uppercase names. Mail sent to this
account needed to be forwarded elsewhere.

You are right. Most people wouldn't sensibly choose to use uppercase
names, but the option to allow it does have its uses in real situations.

Simon 

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