[gentoo-server] interesting occurence

[Ben Munat]

Here's a weird occurence that has me stumped. Logged into my gentoo 
server and did an "ls" in root's home directory. Mixed in with all the 
files I expected in there were a number of empty text files... and 
here's the strange part: the names of the files were random snippets 
from an email that I received a while back!

Now, if I remember correctly, that email was actually routed to root, so 
I guess at least the email that got sliced up into file names did come 
from root's maildir... it didn't come from somewhere else on the system. 
But I had thrown that email away a long time ago... though, I haven't 
done an "ls" in root's home dir in a while, so I'm not sure how long the 
files have been there.

Well, I'm running qmail... anyone have any ideas how text from a mail 
file gets scattered around as names of files?

Ben