The mail must go through

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I looked a little farther, and solved my own problem.  I had
created a user with an initial capital letter.  Even though
that's what was in /etc/passwd et.al., the mail system refuses
to believe usernames can be capitalized.  Sigh.  I suppose I
shoulda known that.

++ kevin



On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:25:23PM +0000, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've not done anything to my mail system in so long I've probably
> forgotten something really goofy, but here's my problem.
> 
> I'm running sendmail (because it runs out of the box and 'till
> now never gave me a spec of trouble).  I have myself and some
> mailing lists here, all of which set up easily.
> 
> I just created a new user, but when I try to send mail to that
> user, my mail client (mutt) reports failure because of an unknown
> user.  I can log in as the user, but I get the same symptoms
> sending mail to myself as that user.  The user has an empty
> mail spool file, with the same sorts of permissions as my normal
> login.
> 
> All other mail things are working fine.  The mail logs show the
> error, but don't seem to say why I'm having this problem.
> 
> Any clues?

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