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Re: [ietf-dkim] Body Length mechanism rejections

2006-04-28 14:16:43
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Michael Thomas allegedly wrote:
Eric Allman wrote:

| 3.4.5  Body Length Limits
| ...
| Note that verifiers MAY choose to reject or truncate messages
| that have body content beyond that specified by the body length
| count.

change to:

: Note that verifiers MAY choose to truncate messages that have
: body content beyond that specified by the body length count.


Paul and Jim seem to agree --- others?

Is this meaning to say that a verifier can't reject a mail if the
length mis-matches? That seems like something rather hard to
enforce. I also don't know the context this is in. Is it only relevant
if a verify is checking l= or in all cases?


Mark.

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