In message <20020411150405.C24737@netmeister.org>, Jan Schaumann writes:
>"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a *really* old attack -- does it really still work?  My very 
>> quick tests suggest that it doesn't under NetBSD, because, as mail(1) 
>> says in describing -I:
>> 
>> 	In particular, the `~' special character when sending mail
>> 	is only active in interactive mode.
>
>Oh, yeah.  S'ppose I should have RTFM'd more carefully.
>
It's always good to test such things, to see if they really behave the 
way the man page says they do -- but as I said, some very quick tests 
suggest that /usr/bin/mail does the right thing.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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