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Re: [ietf-dkim] SSP vs. reputation (was: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP to unsigned messages)

2008-01-25 08:42:03
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:36:49 -0000, Frank Ellermann <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> wrote:

Hector Santos wrote:

On my dead box I have a few old mails From: you.  Under mail
rules since RFC 822 I am entitled to resend them to say Eric,
maybe in a discussion about the merits of SMTP HEAD vs. SREJ.

That you (as domain owner) can suddenly try to decree that I
cannot resend your old unsigned mail to Eric is preposterous
and a design issue in SSP.

Actually, it is a design issue in DKIM. If Hector wants to prevent you resending his messages to Eric, all he has to do is to include the relevant "Resent-*" headers within the scope off his signature (which amounts to a declaration that there are none). So if you then resend them to Eric, Eric will find that Hector's signature no longer works (and, of course, Hector's SSP=strict :-( ).

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