[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > When a filename is constructed, dots are replaced with colons.  This
 > > prevents tricks with ../../../, while still allowing the use of
 > > ".qmail-foo/bar".
 > 
 > Do the slashes get translated, or can they be used to do tricks with
 > subdirectories?

The latter, except that they look funny.  You have to have a
subdirectory named .qmail-foo, and you put dot-qmail commands in a
file named bar.  And the extension is foo/bar, so you have to send
mail to user-foo/bar.

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