[Gllug] Sendmail odd behaviour

[Ken Smith]

John Winters wrote:
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> Ken Smith wrote:
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>> I have recently created some new user id's and none of these id's can 
>> receive e-mail. I used the normal useradd method to create the user 
>> id's. If I manually telnet to the local sendmail on port 25 and manually 
>> send mail, it work's for old user id's but not for the recent ones. What 
>> the heck is happening here.
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> What error message do you get when you enter the RCPT TO clause?  What
> appears in sendmail's log file?
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> John
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Here you go...

rcpt to:Martin
550 5.1.1 Martin... User unknown

and in maillog

Jun  1 19:26:01 fileserver sendmail[1058]: m51IP3GA001058: Martin... 
User unknown


but the entry Martin is in /etc/passwd as follows...

Martin:x:518:518:Martin:/home/Martin:/bin/bash



BUT if I change the username to be all lowercase it works - go figure!


:-(

Ken

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