On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 06:11:24PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> - Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> | Not true. But: you should not have both 
> | 
> | eric-van-der-laan
> | 
> | and 
> | 
> | eric.  Indeed, then eric might try to set up an alias
> | 
> | ~eric/.qmail-van-der-laan
> 
> He might try, but it won't let him snatch eric-van-der-laan's mail.
> Look at the code in qmail-getpw:  It will first look up user
> eric-van-der-laan, and then, if that fails, it will successively try
> eric-van-der, eric-van, and eric.

Sure.  The point is that, eric's alias does not work---and that is not
acceptable.

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis  

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