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Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM adoption

2009-08-03 15:50:16


Paul Russell wrote:
Probably not.  But DKIM is not designed to provide a message recipient with
the ability to determine whether a message is spam; it is designed to provide 
a
message recipient with the ability to determine whether a message was sent by
the apparent sender.


Since your caution constructively seeks to pay attention to what DKIM is *not* 
and especially since that goes against most folks' expectations for DKIM, it's 
tempting simply to agree.

Strictly speaking, however, the 'apparent sender' reference is likely to be 
problematic since those same "most folks" will think it means the author (From: 
field) and it might or might not.

The signing does not even have to be a direct handler of the message, per the 
Goodmail form signing "on behalf of" the author's organization.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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