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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!news.edu.tw!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: rfresh@mail.idt.net (Ralph Freshour) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: POP Mail - Users with Capitols??? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:43:30 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <51vdkl$3e3@news.ios.com> References: <3242D48E.5BFA@he.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-6.ts-4.la.idt.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4920 comp.unix.misc:25197 comp.mail.misc:30466 RFC 821 (for SMTP) says case does matter with user names - Smith is *not* the same as smith. I would conclude the same is true for the pop3 spec although I don't have it handy to look up at the moment. --Ralph ShadowTech Enterprises <shadow@he.net> wrote: >I just activated a couple hundred accounts on a new server. Most of them >work fine as far as E-Mail but some of them have been getting back (User >unknown) errors when they send a message to themselves (or when someone >else sends a message to them). I have found that is only the users that >have capitol letters in their name. I don't even want to think about the >trouble involved if I had to ask everyone to change their username to >all lowercase. I am hoping this is something simple to fix. I am using >popper and sendmail on a BSD/OS server. I would any appreciate if you >could E-Mail any response as well as post it as I need to get this fixed >ASAP! >Dave Hagewood >ShadowTech Enterprises >admin@arrowweb.com