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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090716/ca975e22/attachment-0002.bin>
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 -- Geert Hendrickx -=- ghen at telenet.be -=- PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 486 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090716/370e25b4/attachment-0002.bin>
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090720/1dfa4e86/attachment-0002.bin>