Apparantly, sendmail does lowercase everything. One thing
mentioned was to add a "u" to my F= in the sendmail.cf file
to not lowercase local users, but..I want that to happen
for anyone else EXCEPT this particular user.
As well it was stated that using upper case in logins is
strongly advised against. This account is only going to
be sending out emails via a cron job, no logins, no receipt
of mails, so I'm going to chance it for now.
My workaround:
I also created an account called "the_dec" with the Full Name
I wanted to be attached to the "The_DEC". This way when sendmail
lowercases it and looks through /etc/passwd, it will find the_dec
and pull that Name. It works....so far anyhow :)
Thanks to those who replied
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Gallen [mailto:ggallen_at_slackinc.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:10 PM
>To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
>Subject: Is this a sendmail problem? or DU?
>
>
>We created an account called "The_DEC" for sending out emails, the
>Full Name is set as "Accounting Department".
>
>The_DEC:Nologin:613:15:Accounting
>Department:/usr/users/The_DEC:/bin/csh
>
>If I type:
>
>mailx -s test ggallen_at_slackinc.com
>test
>test
>.
>
>When I receive the email it is from "The_DEC_at_slackinc.com",
>but the Name
>isn't there.
>
>When I created an account called "the_dec" with the same Full
>Name, when the
>same line above was entered the emails were from
>
>"Accounting Department <the_dec_at_slackinc.com>"
>
>Is this possibly because, sendmail downcases everything, then
>can't find
>the_dec? or
>is another issue involving Digital Unix?
>
>George
>
>
>
>George Gallen
>Senior Programmer/Analyst
>Accounting/Data Division
>ggallen_at_slackinc.com
>ph:856.848.1000 Ext 220
>
>SLACK Incorporated - An innovative information, education and
>management
>company
>http://www.slackinc.com
>
Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 19:18:53 NZST