Scott D Yelich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder what could be done to make a .qmail alias for an address such
> as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't looked it up to see if qmail
> is smart about quoting -- but it would be amusing to see a novice try to
> get a / into a filename.
Why would qmail need to quote that? It would look it up in the passwd
file or in qmail-users and find the right place to deliver it. If the /
ends up in the part that determines the qmail file name, like if it's
delivered to ~alias, it does exactly what you'd expect and looks for a
file named "address" in the directory ~alias/.qmail-my.
It's possible to use this to great effect to avoid having too many files
in the same directory and to more logically organize things. Since qmail
converts periods to colons, there's really no security problem with it.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
