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Re: [ietf-dkim] Alternative MAiling List Approach

2010-08-04 05:50:37
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:32:05 +0100, John R. Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

"1. Only modify the From: in cases where the incoming mail was  
DKIM-signed."

Like I said, this screws up the mail for the 99% of people who don't use  
ADSP. since they can no longer respond directly to the authors of (some)  
list mail.

No it doesn't. An essential part of the scheme was that the MLM should  
provide a mechanism so that replies sent to the mutilated From: would get  
delivered correctly (and for added safety the Reply-To would normally be  
set too). So all users would be able to respond directly to authors as at  
present, probably without even noticing that something lightly odd was  
involved).

 As I also noted, people who believe that they are so important that  
it's essential for recipients to verify that mail is really from them  
can use S/MIME, which is if anything more likely than DKIM to survive  
list mangling.

That might be a fine thing, but you then have the problem of educating a  
large number of people to do something they do not currently do (and  
likely don't even know how to do).

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