[Dovecot] does dovecot interpret any mail headers specially with maildir?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Oct 29 22:40:46 EET 2012


On 29.10.2012, at 22.31, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> For mbox,
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox#Dovecot.27s_Metadata lists a
> numer of mail headers:
> - X-IMAPbase
> - X-IMAP
> - X-UID
> - Status
> - X-Status
> - X-Keywords
> - Content-Length
> that are treated specially by dovecot.
> 
> It also suggests, that these should be stripped by the LDA (I guess in
> order that someone sending you such mail cannot set the status or
> keywords, or even "attack you" by setting a bogus Content-Length).

Right.

> I wondered, when using maildir, are there any headers that dovecote
> would treat specially, too?
> And which I therefore should strip?

No. Maildir metadata is stored elsewhere.



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