Re: [gentoo-server] interesting occurence

[Jonathan S. Romero]

Did the files have maildir style names?

-Jonathan

Ben Munat wrote:

> 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
>