Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> wrote:
> [ 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.
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