Picky Picky

I found an answer to my mail problems. Someone hit on my blog using sendmail “user unknown” errors 8.14.1 as a search term. I figured that this person was having problems similar to my own. So I put that same search in Google and found this thread.

It looks like having a user name with capital letters in it throws sendmail into a tizzy. This fits perfectly with what I observed on my own machine. I can receive mail sent to root or boinc, but I can’t receive mail sent to Kathryn.

So I guess I need to create a new user for myself called “kathryn”. I’m just not sure what to do with all the stuff that’s in “Kathryn”.

Oh well. At least the mystery has been solved.