On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:23:53PM -0500, Derek wrote in
<[email protected]>:
i'm sure one could come up with other data points if one is inclined
so.
This is not a compelling argument, and I'm equally sure that you can't.
"Ah... All this time you've been saying you do not know who Hot Lady 69
is, but I see that your and her mail come from the same process, on the
same machine, with sequential ID's and just minutes apart. What gives?"
"Didn't you say you'd do your homework and only start mailing again when
you would be done and talk to me first about that? I see you have sent at
least 20 emails between the time you told me that and when you told me you
were done."
"Who have you been mailing with today!?"
"Hello Mr. Suspect. We see that there are 4 missing emails missing from
your Sent folder on the 4th of this month. Do you care to explain?"
"I thought there was a power outage that kept you from doing any work
yesterday?"
These might all seem far fetched, but the point is, information is being
disclosed that is of no value to be included in the Message-ID header.
If (as ilf pointed out but which you did not address in your response to
him/her) the concerns raised in
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/159 are valid there, why are they
not valid in this context?
Anyways, I am not saying my proposed patch is perfect, but I do think this
is something that I feel could (should?) be addressed; Not as an item of
the highest priority, but something to at least keep in mind. I do like
the suggestion to use or include a hashed value instead of the pid and the
GA counter.
Cheers,
Remco
