On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:25:05AM -0500, Jim Roland wrote:
> Yes, it actually did work.  I use Pine 4.05, and have not changed mailcap,
> like what most people would have done (not changed it).  Fortunately, like
> I said, he never actually got my passwords because I was not logged in as
> root.  I have my root account forwarded to a user-level account.  He did
> email root at my domain.

        Bingo!

        AFAIK, the latest version of Pine is at least 4.21 and prior
versions have known security holes (at least two, an environment
expansion bug and a Mime path overflow bug).

> -=>Jim Roland

> "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower."
>         --Anonymous

        [...]

        Mike
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