Bug 63677 - Error mailing to local users if username contains uppercase chars.
Summary: Error mailing to local users if username contains uppercase chars.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-17 12:11 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-15 11:09:43 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-04-17 12:11:46 UTC
Description of Problem:
If I mail to a local user that has caps in the username like "Freaks", the mail 
program gives the error "Freaks... User unknown", even if Freaks is a valid 
system user.  When using usernames that dont contain uppercase characters, 
this error doesn't occur.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8.11.6-2.7.1

How Reproducible:
Create a user with uppercase characters and try to mail him (using "mail 
Testuser")

Actual Results:
The folowing error: 
"Freaks... User unknown
/root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter"


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-07-13 18:17:05 UTC
i have the same Problem

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2004-01-15 11:09:43 UTC
I am sorry this problem can not be solved. You should only generate
accounts with lowercase characters. 

Example: You are having two users: Freak and freak. Who should get the
emails for "fReAk@localhost"? 

Email addresses are case-insensitive, but logins are case-sensitive.



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