And if your regex engine has vulns? ;) On 10 July 2015 22:41:23 GMT+01:00, grarpamp wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:17:57AM -0700, Seth wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:20 -0700, Tom wrote: [1]http://ptrace.fefe.de/fpalm30c3.jpg I actually appreciate content posted in message, get tired of having to fire up a browser for links. Also every click on a browser link is a potential attack whereas plain-text in an email is not. Are you sure plain-text email is not potential attack? There have been many bugs in text mail clients. IIRC shell shock affected qmail local delivery (and maybe procmail). Affection is possible... [2]http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/qmail/users/138578 Moral: Validate input and pipelines. Even if only a silly regex sanity filter on instruction metadata (email addresses), ie: [A-Za-z0-9._@+-] mod utf-8 Security is not being liberal in what you accept. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. References 1. http://ptrace.fefe.de/fpalm30c3.jpg 2. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/qmail/users/138578