tlug: Mail

[Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com>]

I've been playing around a bit with "mail" recently, trying to get it to
work before I move on to other stuff.

I had noticed in the past that I could only send mail to "root", mail to
myself ("Neil" as login) would always fail with user unknown. After
trying for a while in vain, I would give up.

I tried again today, and I think I know the problem - mail seems to
lower-case the destination user, so sending mail to "Neil" actually
sends it to "neil", who doesn't exist. What surprised me was it worked
when I created a user called "neil".

Is there a way to turn off this lower-casing? Am I even remotely on the
right track? I'd like to keep my logins and not change them to lower
case.

What is it that is doing this? Sendmail, or mail?

Neil.

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