[Dovecot] Are host names a secret?

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Thu Jul 16 23:57:47 EEST 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:30:00PM -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?


Why?  Users can see hostnames in eg. Received headers as well?


	Geert


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