Sendmail + Sites with names in uppercase = Argh!

[Bill Irwin]

In article <1893 at zap.UUCP> fortin at zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes:
>Greetings!
>
>       I am running ix/386 v.2.0.2, and I have a couple of uucp
>neighbours which have UPPERCASE characters in their machine names.  This
>causes a problem with sendmail because on a "mail user at SITE.uucp", it
>turns the name into "site" and then complains that "site" is unknown.
>
>       I thought of making the entry for "SITE" be "site" in my Systems
>file, but then the problem shifts: HDB uucp will not recognize "SITE" as
>"site" when it logs into my machine.
>
>       Before I start thinking of big ugly patches, could someone suggest
>a way of telling HDB that SITE and site and functionally equivalent machines?
>(I don't have the full documentation for the "Permissions" file)

I  encountered this problem when installing our system.  Our system  name
is  "TWG",  but  mail  would not transfer properly.  I was  told  to  put
"MYNAME=twg"  in  the Permissions entry for the connecting site...and  it
worked!

I  know the "gettydefs" file could have all "@" replaced with "TWG", then
change "/etc/systemid" to "twg", but I thought this was more elegant with
less future administrivia to worry about.

Good luck.

--
Bill Irwin
TWG The Westrheim Group
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