[ Walt Haas writes: ]
>
> OK, great, but *WHY* are we worrying about trapping this one particular
> kind of address?
Good question. I'm not enough of a sendmail guru to give you specifics,
but sendmail isn't the only MTA possible and not all MTAs are created
equal. Sendmail will gladly deliver to a file path, although there are
usually other safeguards to plug such holes. I think the test is there
because it's better to check for such things and alert someone of
possible attacks than to just blindly assume something else will take
care of it. Perhaps *all* the X.400 checking should be controlled by
options.
> My patch at least had the virture of not changing line numbers :-)
That only counts for binary patches. ;-)
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Dave Wolfe
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