Bug 124548

Summary: Sendmail doesn't match mixed case nis aliases
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Thomas J. Baker <tjb>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Thomas J. Baker 2004-05-27 13:32:04 UTC
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Description of problem:
sendmail doesn't seem to match mixed case yp aliases. With an alias
defined as 'Test: tjb.edu', sendmail doesn't match 'test' or
'Test' but if the aliases is changed to 'test: tjb.edu' it
works fine. I don't know if this is a bug or a feature. This happens
with the two stated versions of sendmail.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.12.10-1, sendmail-8.12.11-3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an nis alias with mixed case like 'Test'
2. try to mail to it
3.
    

Actual Results:  mail bounces

Expected Results:  mail should be delivered normally

Additional info:

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2007-07-23 09:44:00 UTC
Please have a look at the sendmail documentation:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc/op-sh-2.html

Have you used the -l flag for sendmail?

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2007-07-24 15:57:31 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Engineering for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.

Red Hat does not currently plan to provide this change in a Red Hat Enterprise
Linux update release for currently deployed products.

With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in
response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative
approach when evaluating enhancements for inclusion in maintenance updates
for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases
are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical
defects.

However, Red Hat will further review this request for potential inclusion
in future major releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.