Re: Message-ID, privacy and uniqueness

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:34:35 +0800
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:58:48PM +0000, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>I think it's clear that we aren't going to increase the amount of=20
>entropy in the localpart. Should we still guard against the hostname=20
>information leak, or just accept that as a non-ideal state of things?

I don't think there is much appetite for tweaking the default=20
message-id format again at this point.  Rene said it best in his reply=20
<[email protected]>:

>People are free to choose whatever they want and set message_id_format.
>Let the default be what it is. I don't see any need to bikeshed this
>topic anymore.

I may consider adding an expando for the *whole* from address, at some=20
point, in one of the two ways I mentioned in the thread.  But won't=20
likely change the default.

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