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SMTP and DKIM/POLICY Rejection Handling

2009-10-17 22:34:37

Dave CROCKER wrote:

David MacQuigg wrote:
Failed DKIM would be a policy reason.

It would also violate the DKIM specification.


-1.

Not if its a DKIM POLICY based reason. I presumed he meant RFC 5617 DKIM=DISCARDABLE|ALL where From: and DKIM-Signature: or lack there of, headers is all that is needed.

Failed DKIM validation is to be treated as if no signature is present.


which violates RFC 5617 DKIM=DISCARDABLE policy which would justify a SMTP level rejection or POST SMTP message acception silent discard.

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Hector Santos
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