Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
List, Step1: Make a new user:: root@localhost# pw useradd foo -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 password for user foo: (secret) Step 2: Does sendmail know them:: root@modunix# sendmail -bv foo@localhost foo@localhost... deliverable: mailer local, user foo # Good... Step 3: Make a new

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Step1: Make a new user:: root@localhost# pw useradd foo -m -s /bin/tcsh -h 0 password for user foo: (secret) Step 2: Does sendmail know them:: root@modunix# sendmail -bv foo@localhost

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600, Modulok wrote: I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were too. If I remember e-mail basics correctly: No. They're not. For example, f...@example.com, f...@example.com and f...@example.com and all upper/lowercase variations are the same as

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600, Modulok wrote: I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were too. If I remember e-mail basics correctly: No. They're not. For example, f...@example.com, f...@example.com

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:36:41 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600, Modulok wrote: I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were too. If I remember e-mail basics correctly:

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Modulok
Everything to the right of the @ is indeed case insensitive, but everything to the left might be case sensitive, depending on local policy. This means you must preserve the case of everything to the left of the @ sign. According to the link provided by Erich Dollansky, FreeBSD's default

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 26 May 2013 21:31:09 -0600, Modulok wrote: Everything to the right of the @ is indeed case insensitive, but everything to the left might be case sensitive, depending on local policy. This means you must preserve the case of everything to the left of the @ sign. According to