RE: RV: Invalid local real name - or invalid newsgroup

["Alfredo Sanjuan" <alfre@ibd.es>]

The REAL user name (login) is a dotted name. You mean that I need to enable a
not dotted login for every user?

I really need a way to deliver mail to dotted mailboxes...


>in ...mail/db/fullnames, put dotted.name    realname
>one line/user
>then run .../mail/bin/makendbm ndbm fullnames
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>Alfredo Sanjuan wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> When I try to send a message to a local user with a dot in his user name, by
>> example:
>>
>> g.albillos@domain.com
>>
>> Zmailer rewite te "To:" header and delete the domain, and generates this
error:
>>
>> >In the following message, it appears from the format of certain
>> >addresses that you have attempted to send a message to somebodys
>> >"Real.Name", or alternatively to an USENET newsgroup.
>> >
>> >Unfortunately both lookups have failed.  fullnames -database didn't
>> >contain attempted  Real.Name, nor our copy of active newsgroups
>> >database did have such a newsgroup.
>> >
>> >It is a common mistake to write address alike:   user.host.domain
>> >when you REALLY wanted it to be:                 user@host.domain
>> >
>> >error: norealname: g.albillos
>> >
>>
>> How can I solve this problem? I have several users with a dot in his user
name.
>>
>> Please HELP!
>>
>> /alfredo
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