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MAIL: Using "nobody"

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NODE 7319d945MAIL: Using "nobody" ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)Wed, 22 Jun 94 22:07:50 PDT

> I don't understand: why can't the somebody do a telnet to port 25 and
> "vrfy nobody" to see if it points to /dev/null?  Or find out if mail
> is piped to a script?

Try that on andrew.cmu.edu