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From: "Richard Drage" <richard@proweb.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail replacement
Date: 11 Oct 1996 09:53:14 GMT
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> 	We are currently running Worldgroup on BSDI 2.1 for our e-mail 
> service but are in the process of taking it down.  Problem:  Our users 
> have capital letters and symbols in their e-mail names (. & _) and I 
> understand sendmail will not deliver to users w/caps.  Usernames are 
> limited to 16 characters and no symbols, etc...

You could add an alias in /etc/aliases for each user :-(
Sendmail will handle .'s & _'s if they're aliased to a passwd account.

eg.  fred.bloggs:		fredbloggs

Regards

Richard

richard@proweb.net