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Re: [mail-vet-discuss] Last Call: draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header (Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status) to Proposed Standard

2008-12-02 11:50:03
Dave CROCKER wrote:

The DKIM specification advises against taking final filtering, actions 
such as
rejecting messages, based on a "fail" result, since there are 
legitimate reasons
a signed message might fail to verify.  Per the DKIM specification 
such messages
SHOULD be treated as though they were not signed at all.  Thus, a 
verifier MAY
elect to report "neutral" in place of "fail" to discourage needlessly 
harsh
reactions from downstream agents.

Ah thanks, I like that much better.
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