On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 03:20:06PM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Peter van Dijk writes:
> > All agreed, but I still don't understand Russell saying 'slashes
> > were useful to allow subdirectories'.
>
> Simply that I could arrange things so that, if you sent mail to
> nelson-foo/bar, it's delivery would be controlled by a file called
> ~nelson/.qmail-foo/bar, which is to say that there is a directory
> called .qmail-foo in ~nelson, and it has a dot-qmail(5) file in it
> called bar.
That's what I thought it would do :) But I tried that yesterday. Didn't work.
It does work this time.. Damn.. I WAS stupid this weekend.
> You could then try delivering to nelson-foo/../Mailbox (in an attempt
> to stuff mail into my Mailbox), but qmail would go looking for
> ~nelson/.qmail-foo/::/Mailbox, which might or might not (!) exist.
Hmm.. nice for catching hackers :)
Now that I know this.. I think this feature could be (ab)used for managing virtual
domains in some way...
I like this feature!
Greetz, Peter.
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