[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail giving me user unknown for a local user account

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 12:11, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I do have parasailworkshop.com in my local-host-names file.
> 
> As a test, I created another user account with the name
> parasail and changed my mapping to point to that
> and everything worked fine.
> 
> So, any ideas why sendmail would accept "parasail"
> but not "parasailWorkshop"?
> 

Character limit in the account names, perhaps?  Just a guess as I don't
work with Sendmail on a daily basis.

> I can repeat this as many times as I like.
> I have double-checked the spelling, so that is not
> a problem.
> 
> Is this a bug in sendmail?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Neil.
> 
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
> JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
> Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
> 
> 

-- 
Alton R. Pouncey, II
SCSA, SCNA, CCNA, CIW Professional