[Dovecot] X-UID: 4085788205 != 2147483647

Stephen Gowing sbg+dovecot at it.uts.edu.au
Thu Jan 25 00:33:34 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 13:23 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
[...]
> You could also prevent this completely by stripping the X-UID header  
> in your SMTP server or LDA. For example Dovecot LDA strips all the  
> Dovecot's internal metadata headers.

.. I've added

 /^X-UID/ IGNORE
 /^X-IMAP/ IGNORE

to header_checks on each of our postfix servers -- are there any others
I should be aware of?

> I guess the UID renumbering could be done some day, but for now I  
> think it's just way too much trouble with not that much benefits.

Fair enough, I agree it's a very unlikely situation.

sbg



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