Re: Email addresses with .'s in

[Russell Nelson]

Peter van Dijk writes:
 > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:31:44PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > qmail replaces dots with colons when searching for a .qmail file.
 > 
 > Why is that, anyway?

It's a security measure, to keep people from sending mail to
user-../../etc/passwd (e.g.).  Qmail-local used to replace slashes
with colons, until it was seen that slashes were useful to allow
subdirectories, so now the dots are replaced with colons.

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