The mail must go through

[Joel Hammer]

I would try creating another user, and see if this problem is persistent.
Maybe you just made a mistake creating your new user.
Joel

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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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