On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:51:36PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 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.
I understand the security part (feeling stupid today after reconfigging one win95
machine just over 15 times. I never knew that I could actually feel stress...).
But where would you use directories in that? Creating .qmail-bla/duh and mailing to
peter-bla/duh doesn't really do the job.
Hmm.. too little caffeine here.
Greetz, Peter.
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