[Dovecot] Are host names a secret?

Axel Luttgens AxelLuttgens at swing.be
Fri Jul 17 10:53:28 EEST 2009


Le 17 juil. 09 à 00:45, Ralph Seichter a écrit :

> Axel Luttgens wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> What shouldn't be allowed wrt RFC rules, unless I'm wrong: at any  
>> time,
>> the user should be able to trace the path of a received message (an  
>> SMTP
>> server MUST add a Received header, never remove or modify such a  
>> header).
>
> Stripping "Received" headers at an outbound SMTP gateway to obscure
> internal server infrastructure is a common practice, and there is
> nothing wrong about it.

You're right, of course. I was too focused on "regular" headers,  
without thinking about those headers that may be internally produced  
by an infrastructure.

Thanks,
Axel


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