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Re: [ietf-dkim] NEW ISSUE: NAKED CR & LF issues with body canonicalization

2006-07-16 21:50:44
John L wrote:


My strong suggestion is to say that if you want your DKIM signatures
to interoperate, you should only sign compliant mail.

That's completely unhelpful.


Just in case you missed it the last three times I said this: make the message compliant, then sign it.

I guess you missed where I said that you'd be better taking that up with Eric.


I suppose I can sort of imagine hypothetical situations where two hosts would be passing messages back and forth that require naked CR or LF, but that's a private network, not SMTP. I am utterly unable to imagine why an IETF standard should require DKIM to handle such messages when we all know that the only reason they happen is software bugs, and it's already common practice to fix them up at a relay.

Incorrect. They could be applications that were built well before the issuing of RFC 2822, were following STD11 and thus completely in spec. It's hardly asking very much to expect IETF specs to be liberal in what they receive when it comes to previous full standards
with 25 years of legacy.

      Mike
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