On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 00:12 +0200, Axel Luttgens wrote: > > With large installations with multiple servers that could allow user > > to > > see e.g. if they're on the same server as someone else they know, or > > when they get moved to a different servers, etc.. But is this a real > > issue? Maybe not. > > I tend to agree with the latter. > First, hiding the info would tend towards security through obscurity. > Second, it is very likely that the info would anyway be leaked through > some other parts of the transport layers. > Third, one may hope that the security of smtp/imap/pop softwares > doesn't depend on the availability of such info. ;-)
It's not really about the security, but more about exposing some information that maybe the IMAP service provider would have preferred if you didn't know about.
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