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From: fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail converts prognames to lowercase.
Summary: When running queue runs command lines for progmailer are mapped to lower case.
Keywords: queue run, program names to lowercase
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.114126.2153@dde.dk>
Date: 4 Apr 91 11:41:26 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
Lines: 41

I beleive that my problem must have been found and solved by someone
so I will confide my problems to you.

I have the original Berkely 5.61 sendmail.

My local mailer does not have the 'u' flag (do not map to lowercase) set.

My prog mailer does have the 'u' flag set.

I have a command defined in .forward to deliver my mail. This
command contains uppercase.

When mail is delivered without queueing everything works fine.

When the queue is scanned by the daemon or by a call with -q, 
something strange happens:

The command found in .forward is converted to lowercase
and the excute fails since the command cannot be found.

I have traced through the sources
and I found that it is the local mailer's flags which are
used when deciding whether to map to lowercase. 

In the procedure 'recipient' the mapping is performed if the
username is not an alias using the local mailers 
flags. Just after that one finds out that this is for the 
progmailer to handle and replaces the mailer????

Is this a feature or if it is an error does anyone know 
where to fix it ?

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