>At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on my
>RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user name,
>but I like it.
Liking has nothing to do with it. You have to fit within the rules.
>Unfortunately, Mail/Sendmail doesn't like it. No matter what I try I cannot
>get mail delivered to user James, James@localhost, James@MyDomain, nothin.
Correct, all user names MUST be lowercase only.
>Sendmail keeps telling me (or, rather e-mailing root) that user "james" is
>unknown - which is accurate, as that user does not exist.
Another correct. It is following the rules.
>Any clues as to how I can get Mail/Sendmail to accept the fact that my
>usernames may have upper case characters in them? I've tried aliasing james
>to James, but that doesn't seem to work.
Yep. Change James to james. Sorry, it is your only choice.
>If anyone has specific experience with other mail daemons (qmail, zmail?)
>feel free to recommend away. I'm still a newbie as far as Linux goes and am
>not particularly loyal to any packages.
As far as I know, whatever package you use will have the same "problem."
That is because of the standardization on user name space. That way anyone can
put whatever they want for a return address and it will get delivered. Whatever
they want case wise.
Unless the rules have changed recently, you are stuck with "james."
MB
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