sendmail prog aliases don't understand mixed case
cak at Purdue.ARPA
cak at Purdue.ARPA
Thu Dec 15 01:45:00 AEST 1983
From: Christopher A Kent <cak at Purdue.ARPA>
Description:
Program aliases in sendmail get converted to all lower case
before the exec() call, apparently by the same code that
converts all the recipients to lower case (this is also a bad
deal if you have mixed case login ids).
Repeat-By:
Build a program alias with mixed case. I have a private
"vacation" program, so I changed my .forward to be
\cak
"| /usr/cak/Mail/Recmail"
When I sent a letter to test it, I got back
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
To: cak
Date: 14 Dec 1983 1041-EST (Wednesday)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
/usr/cak/mail/recmail: Command not found.
554 "| /usr/cak/Mail/Recmail"... unknown mailer error 1
----- Unsent message follows -----
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