Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Mixed case mail addresses Message-ID: <1749@decuac.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 12:27:07 EDT Article-I.D.: decuac.1749 Posted: Mon Oct 19 12:27:07 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 06:45:13 EDT References: <2399@bcsaic.UUCP> Sender: Unknown@decuac.DEC.COM Organization: DEC SWS, Landover, MD Lines: 31 Phyllis at Boeing in Seattle writes: > We're using Ultrix and because we're on CSNET/ARPANET I want to accept > mail directed to us without regard to the case of the userid part > of the address. E.g., mail for or > would be sent to . It seems to me that sendmail doesn't care about cases. And I cannot find a local mailer flag that addresses the problem. (And *my* ULTRIX machine doesn't care about case.) So, I make 2 suggestions... 1. In sendmail.cf have you Mlocal mailer definition look something like this (with regard to the flags, in particular): Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMe, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u 2. Check to see if you have local names defined in the sendmail.cf (yucky, but possible). It would be a class edfined which points to /etc/passwd and has some scanf-style format field. If it is there, my guess is that it contains lower case letters but no upper case. Add them. If you change sendmail.cf you should rebuild the frozen config file by the command "/usr/lib/sendmail -bz" and then -- I think -- kill the sendmail daemon running and restart. No way should you need to do funny things with /usr/lib/aliases, etc. Fred