Very Computer

Hello all,

I have a particularly nagging problem.  I have already reinstalled 2.5
in trying to fix this problem.  Any new user I create using the
Admintool cannot receive mail.  The root user can send and receive.
But any other user can only send.

This is all on the same machine.  If I log in as root and send a
message to user Bruce, the system says, "Bruce - unknown user".  Yet I
can easily "su" over to Bruce and successfully send mail to root.  The
mail even arrives From: Bruce.  Any other user I have created all
suffer from the same problem.

I have added an HPUX machine (mail works fine on that machine) to my
hosts table as the mailhost.  I have copied the main.cf over the
sendmail.cf as instructed.  Still, no mail.  Every user can mail to
root, and every user root tries to send to returns an "unknown user"
error message.

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks in advance.........BW

Quote:> I have a particularly nagging problem.  I have already reinstalled 2.5
> in trying to fix this problem.  Any new user I create using the
> Admintool cannot receive mail.  The root user can send and receive.
> But any other user can only send.

> This is all on the same machine.  If I log in as root and send a
> message to user Bruce, the system says, "Bruce - unknown user".  Yet I
> can easily "su" over to Bruce and successfully send mail to root.  The
> mail even arrives From: Bruce.  Any other user I have created all
> suffer from the same problem.

> I have added an HPUX machine (mail works fine on that machine) to my
> hosts table as the mailhost.  I have copied the main.cf over the
> sendmail.cf as instructed.  Still, no mail.  Every user can mail to
> root, and every user root tries to send to returns an "unknown user"
> error message.

> Can anybody help me with this?

No, the problem is that you can NOT have a user named "Bruce".  He can
be named "bruce".

Jeeze.... the net is dying.

Quote:>> I have a particularly nagging problem.  I have already reinstalled 2.5
>> in trying to fix this problem.  Any new user I create using the
>> Admintool cannot receive mail.  The root user can send and receive.
>> But any other user can only send.

>> This is all on the same machine.  If I log in as root and send a
>> message to user Bruce, the system says, "Bruce - unknown user".  Yet I
>> can easily "su" over to Bruce and successfully send mail to root.  The
>> mail even arrives From: Bruce.  Any other user I have created all
>> suffer from the same problem.

>> I have added an HPUX machine (mail works fine on that machine) to my
>> hosts table as the mailhost.  I have copied the main.cf over the
>> sendmail.cf as instructed.  Still, no mail.  Every user can mail to
>> root, and every user root tries to send to returns an "unknown user"
>> error message.

>> Can anybody help me with this?

> sounds like they don't have a mailbox in /var/mail ...you'll have to
> crete
> one for them...and never use admintool...so useless its sad....

.............BW

PS.  The net is not dying.  Through the net, I was able to obtain my
answer.  Neither Sun nor a Sun certified instructor came up with your
answer.  The future is rosy.

Quote:> suffered no other ill-effects from being named in ProperCase.  They
> had complete functionality with the exception of mail.

> .............BW

> PS.  The net is not dying.  Through the net, I was able to obtain my
> answer.  Neither Sun nor a Sun certified instructor came up with your
> answer.  The future is rosy.