[Dovecot] Are host names a secret?

[Jose Celestino]

On Qui, 2009-07-16 at 16:30 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Some time ago I added the ability for IMAP clients to fetch messages'
> GUIDs using FETCH X-GUID command. Because of a bug it wasn't working in
> 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, but I've fixed it now. But now I'm starting to wonder:
> With Maildirs the GUIDs are the maildir base filenames, which contain
> host names. Is it a bad idea to expose them to users?
> 

Don't see why. Apart from guessing the number of incoming servers we
have (we use the so inventive mailN host naming) and I cannot even see
any harm in that.

-- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt
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