Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!Lindsay From: Lindsay_Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers Subject: IDA Gotcha Message-ID:Date: 10 Aug 88 11:09:47 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.7-NCL] X-mailer: mail gatewayed to news (mail-news 1.5a) If you are using the IDA enhancements to sendmail be very careful of what you put in the database files. Remember that the string is used as the format string of a printf............ For example :- lindsay%uk.ac.ncl.kelpie@uk.ac.ncl.cheviot becomes lindsay24362827373k.ac.ncl.kelpie@uk.ac.ncl.cheviot Now if we'd lived in Sweden we might have been worse off...... Lindsay