> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>
> > Depends on what you do with the mail. e.g it will fail
> horribly if you
> > try to deliver to /var/mail/$local_part because "/" cannot
> be used as
> > part of filenames. (And that is probably the main reason for
> > disallowing "/".)
>
> Yes. The disallowing by default is a "safety catch" for sysadmins who
> may not realize the full consequences.
For example, in the example above, you *might* get in trouble if someone
sends mail to "../../etc/exim/configure" (depending on your file
permissions, of course). ;)
