Thanks Peter...I'll give it a shot...
one thing that ocurred to me...I answered yes to running sendmail in deferred
mode... does that stop sendmail also acceptiing mail that Fetchmail tries to
hand to the SMTP port? (simple fix in that case, I'll just write a script to
run them both in conjunction)
Andrew
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Peter Heckert wrote:
> Andrew M George wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Peter,
> > I do have uper case characters in my username (fetchmail seem to be passing
> > them OK..It's probably Sendmail not picking them up
> >
> Locate this line in /etc/sendmail.cf:
> Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
> Change it to:
> Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9u, S=10/30, R=20/40,
> Type as root "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart"
> Hopefully this should fix it.
> Its only a quickndirty workaround,and you must repeat this everytime
> after you used install-sendmail,because this changes will be overwritten.
> AFAIK this will make sendmail case sensitive.
>
> According to the FAQ in http://www.sendmail.org, mail adresses should not be
> case sensitive and unix usernames therefore should be lowercase as a
> convention.
>
> The best solution would be, to have all lowercase usernames.
>
> HTH.
>
> greetings,
>
> Peter
