Subject: RE: Mail users, User Unknown???
bthundereagle@aidea.org
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 13:23:31 AKDT
Oh dear lord...you know, there is such a thing in life as being too
literal...but that should not be the case in computers. You can never be too
close what things should be.
Thank-you, changing the user to all lowercase fixed the problem.
Brian ThunderEagle
- bthundereagle@aidea.org
- furbs@swjedi.net
- http://www.swjedi.net
Quoting James Zuelow <jamesz@ideafamilies.org>:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
> > bthundereagle@aidea.org
> > send mail, and can actually send mail. But when you try to send
> > mail to that
> > user, it returns with "User Unknown" as shown in the log below.
> > They have a
> > mail folder, they have a spool file, and the user is identical to
> > all the other
> > mail users as far as I can tell. Creating any new user results in
> > the same
> > issue.
>
> Is the user really "Elinay" or is it "elinay"?
>
> If you use a capital letter in a user name, most MTAs will not be able to
> deliver mail to that user. They will set everything to lower case. Then
> when they try to deliver mail, there is no user by that name so it gets
> rejected.
>
> One possibility that got me a long time ago. I set up user "James" and
> broke my mail.
>
> HTH,
>
> James
>
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