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Re: [mail-vet-discuss] Draft as of 9/4/2007

2007-09-04 22:21:36
At 15:16 04-09-2007, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

In Section 2.3, I suggest using engineering.example.net instead of engineering.example.edu (RFC 2606).

   The initial set of entries in this registry is as follows:

   +------------+---------+--------+----------------------------------+
   |   Method   | defined | ptype  | property                         |
   +------------+---------+--------+----------------------------------+
   |    auth    | RFC2554 | smtp   | auth                             |
   +------------+---------+--------+----------------------------------+
   |    dkim    | RFC4871 | header | value of signature "i" tag       |
   +------------+---------+--------+----------------------------------+
   | domainkeys | RFC4870 | header | From or Sender                   |
   +------------+---------+--------+----------------------------------+

I'm not sure whether domainkeys should be included in there as it has Historic status.

Appendix B.  Legacy MUAs

   Implementors of this proposal should be aware that many MUAs are
   unlikely to be retrofit to support the new header field and its
   semantics.  In the interests of convenience and quicker adaptation, a
   delivery MTA might want to consider adding things that are processed
   by existing MUAs in addition to the Authentication-Results header
   field.  One suggestion is to include a Priority: header field, on
   messages that don't already have such a header field, containing a
   value that reflects the strength of the authentication that was
   accomplished, e.g. "low" for weak or no authentication, "normal" or
   "high" for good or strong authentication.

I understand the rationale behind this paragraph. It attempts to solve the Legacy MUA issue. However, the proposal redefines a header already defined in the Mail Headers registry for a particular purpose.

C.3.  Service provided, authentication done

   A message that was delivered by an MTA that conforms to this standard
   and applied some message authentication:

        Authentication-Results: mail-router.example.com;
                  spf=pass smtp(_dot_)mail=sender(_at_)example(_dot_)com
        From: sender(_at_)example(_dot_)net
        Received: from dialup-1-2-3-4.example.net
                      (dialup-1-2-3-4.example.net [192.0.128.1])

I suggest changing the 192.0.128.1 to 192.0.2.1 (RFC 3330).


C.5.  Service provided, several authentications done, different MTAs

   A message that was relayed inbound by two different MTAs that conform
   to this specification and applied multiple message authentication
   checks:

        Authentication-Results: auth-checker.example.com;
                  sender-id=fail 
header(_dot_)from=sender(_at_)example(_dot_)com;
                  dkim=pass (good signature) 
header(_dot_)i=sender(_at_)example(_dot_)com
        Received: from mail-router.example.com
                      (mail-router.example.com [192.0.2.1])
                  by auth-checker.example.com (8.11.6/8.11.6)
                      with ESMTP id i7PK0sH7021929;
                  Fri, Feb 15 2002 17:19:22 -0800
        Authentication-Results: mail-router.example.com;
                  auth=pass (cram-md5) 
smtp(_dot_)mail=sender(_at_)example(_dot_)com;
                  spf=fail smtp(_dot_)mail=sender(_at_)example(_dot_)com
        Received: from dialup-1-2-3-4.example.net
                      (dialup-1-2-3-4.example.net [192.0.128.1])

I suggest 192.0.2.200 here.

                  by mail-router.example.com (8.11.6/8.11.6)
                      with ESMTP id g1G0r1kA003489;
                  Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:49:22 -0700
        DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=gatsby; d=example.com;
                  c=simple; q=dns;
                  b=EToRSuvUfQVP3Bkz ... rTB0t0gYnBVCM=

To be in line with the DKIM RFC:

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:49:22 -0700
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=example.com; s=gatsby;
        t=1188964191; x=1189050591; bh=sEuZGD/pSr7ANysbY3jtdaQ3Xv9xPQtS0m70
        Cuhw29g=; h=Message-Id:Date:To:From:Subject:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:
       Mime-Version:Content-Type;b=3ZAJzvgX4CaV7T4BLzKIwz66QyFF+/fKdq4GNM8Rwd
       Ub/2pcQ4GL0nAOCOSxFvCpnPdFW37B/aiv4wXLDRMJeiehratWdrbV3z70WQBKo1/dY5XI
       XQ3veVVJDRzkNSfQ9h2ILd34R/+8kMp403d1DHt5A6iDdjH1a13AoUnjEpA=

Regards,
-sm
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