----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: Pop accounts creation error!
> Do not use account names with upercase letters in them. They will not
> work with any mta. A standard part of mail processing is to change the
> e-mail address to all lower case. That way, e-mail addresses are not
> case sensitive. (Just like URLs...) You realy do not want case
> sensitive e-mail addresses any way. There are too many people out there
> that would be bouncing message otherwise.
>
> Mikkel
Re this problem and the same problem I had earlier with not being able to
receive mail for user "James."
I've also been playing with Debian a little - Debian will refuse to create
a username like James or Indy unless you use the --force-badname option.
So you can still do it if you really want to, but it is a powerful hint
for newbies that is lacking in the RedHat adduser/useradd.
IMHO something to consider borrowing for RH7.1. If a user name with a
leading upper case character causes so much trouble, requiring a switch
like --force-badname or at least having useradd display a warning such as
"Some services such as mail will not work with this username" is a good
idea. (At least as long as RedHat wants to market to Unix/Linux
newcomers.)
Perhaps this also applies to the earlier thread about things that could be
done to reduce the number of RTFM questions.
Cheers,
James
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