On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 03:46:49AM +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> As per subject.
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#enable_long_queue_ids says:
> "For safety reasons the vowels (AEIOUaeiou) are excluded from the
> alphabet." In what way are vowels unsafe?
>
> I can see why certain letters might be avoided in order to avoid typos
> (capital 'i' might be mistaken for lowercase 'l', capital 'O' for the
> number '0', etc.), but I'm not seeing how vowels are "unsafe". Could
> somebody explain this to me?
Unless you're Czech, random strings containing only consonants are
unlikely to accidentally spell out offensive words.
Happy New Year.
--
Viktor.
