Re: Sendmail usernames

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:15, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On a default setup system for 7.3, is there something special to do, to use
> characters other than letters so that sendmail accepts them and longer than
> 8 characters?  A friend tried with a . (period) and with 10 characters in
> the username and would get the *no such user exists) with them.

UNIX usernames should be longer than 8 characters.

Email address have no such restriction.

You may have multiple email addresses be delivered to a single UNIX
account.

/etc/aliases is your friend.

Dax Kelson