Ability to put dovecot version in received header

[Piotr Auksztulewicz]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:50:26PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> 1. other programs (Postfix,exim,fetchmmail,opensmtp, sendmail) - do
> this, at least program name.
> 
> 2. sometimes I would to know when new version really started to deliver
> messages.
> 
> I understand privacy and security (by obscurity) concerns, so I do not
> insist it should be fixed string, but rather option.

Even if no program name is put in the comments inside the Received:
header, it could be inferred from the format of header elements
as each program has its own style; also the major version or a range
or versions can be sometimes inferred as the format changes sometimes,
so there's not much privacy regarding one's choice of mail software.
Specific version logged could be used to target specific vulnerabilities
- but nothing prevents an attacker from trying all known vulnerabilities.
So not much security, either. It is more of a mail headers reading geeks'
curiosity interest than anything else.

(I guess it got removed on the wave of logged data minimization, with
little further thought.)

A configurable option to include given text in a commment could be
sometimes useful to tag messages, but I can imagine it would be a very
low priority feature request. If you really need something like that
you could add a filter to your system which would add some custom
header with whatever info you want.

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Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz                     firstname at lastname.net