> So does anyone know exactly what the problem is? The 8lgm report is > (sadly) too vague to be of much use. I believe this advisory refers to newlines in the From part of a message. By specifying sendmail -F, a user can supply a string as the From name for a message. This string could be any nasty sequence of characters and if the mail was queued (i.e. the host was down), the next queue run would activate the modified file. > Could I maybe patch IDA so I don't > have to worry about the port to V8 right now (I was going to get around to > it, but haven't had and don't have the time....)? You could patch the input routines to only take alphanumeric and a small subset of punctuation characters as input. -- Nathan Lawson \ Never let your schooling interfere with your education. CSL 490/News Admin \ (805)756-7180 @Work \ "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson ---------------------