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.