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Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

2014-04-15 23:57:10
want to allow modification of the subject field (e.g., adding a tag)
and/or the body (e.g., adding header and footer) - then you might have
to be a little cleverer, perhaps by providing information about the
diffs in extra headers and doing a few comparisons at the receiving end
(subject tag = *****<original-signed-subject>).

That's unlikely to be a productive direction to go. We had a lot of arguments about message modification when we were designing the DKIM strict and loose message digests. We never found a way to allow subject tags that wouldn't also enable all sorts of abuse, and I don't think we missed anything.

The reasonable way to use DKIM with mailing lists has always been for
the list to add its own signature, and to use the list signatures to
develop a (presumably good) reputation for the list so its mail gets
delivered.  See the signatures on the messages from this list for an
example.

R's,
John

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