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- From: briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Configure Sendmail for local mail
- Message-ID: <BunA5F.21M@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 00:17:39 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.212628.24764@massey.ac.nz>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Sep15.212628.24764@massey.ac.nz> R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:
- >I can use sendmail for sending mail to the internet, but sending it to a
- >local user on the machine is rejected with
- >
- >RSingh... User unknown: Not a typewriter
- >
- >Can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. Any help.
-
- I seem to remember that capital letters aren't supported for local
- users--in fact, I believe that addresses are supposed to be case-
- insensitive. Try sending it to an ID that's all lowercase. That really
- isn't a good error message! Why ENOTTY?
-
- -allen
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