Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: > > Your options are: > > > > 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same > > numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a > > "*" password. > > I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in > the /etc/passwd file, I will use t

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Xn Nooby a écrit : > Hi Sahil, > > I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I > am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. you forgot to tell us which OS you run. let's assume your "sudo ..." as a hint ;-p - save the following as doit.sh #!/bin/s

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
> Your options are: > > 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same > numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a > "*" password. I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in the /etc/passwd file, I will use this method. I might uses

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
Hi Sahil, I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. Below is my main.cf and aliases file. Also, should I post my replies to emails at the top or the bottom? (a few years ago some people got really mad at me

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Sahil Tandon
Xn Nooby wrote: > >> Probably the easiest solution would be to write a script to create > >> aliases in lower case. > >> > >> -Bryan > > > > No, that won't fix the problem. > > > > The best solution is to not use upper-case usernames. > > > > If that's not possible, the other solutions are: > > a)

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Xn Nooby wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones wrote: Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email address

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Xn Nooby: > >> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > >> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > >> converts all email addre

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Bryan Irvine wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: >>> >>> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am >>> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix >>> converts all email addr

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: > I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to > the accounts that are in uppercase. This

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Xn Nooby: >> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am >> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix >> converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to >> the accounts that ar

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: > I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to > the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the > linux user a

Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the linux user accounts are in upper