[dkim-ops] Test Results for various reflectors

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

> Sliced-and-diced from the dkim-ops archive...
>
> At Thu Jun 8 16:37:34 PDT 2006, "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" wrote:
>> By the way -- can you tell WHY?  I was signing using ietf-base-01, but am 
>> about to switch over to the allman one shortly, it's had SLIGHTLY more 
>> success than the others.  (This message should be signed with it.)  Which 
>> method are you using to verify?
>
> The Allman drafts are older and eventually won't be supported.  You should be 
> using the IETF drafts.  base-02 is current, and we can probably expect a 
> base-03 draft within a month.

There's no support in dk-filter for signing in accordance with the base-02 
spec is there?

This might explain my confusion -- on this page 
http://testing.dkim.org/reflector.html should those be ietf 00 and ietf 01 
instead of allman 00 and allman 01?  Or is there still something I'm 
missing?

> Mostly we (being the working group) consider the most current version of each 
> draft to be the one we're supporting, while including as much backward 
> compatibility for prior versions as possible as well.  Eventually support for 
> earlier versions will be dropped, especially as we progress toward an actual 
> RFC being published.

An (optional) version tag in the signature could be useful here (similar 
to the one in an SPF record).

>> >* Can anyone post contact addresses for issues with these
>> >reflectors? Ideally we need more info, such as: what testing method
>> >they're using, contact address, what standards they support.
>
> The deployed implementations are listed at 
> http://mipassoc.org/dkim/deploy/index.htm.  While that's not a list of the 
> autoresponders, it does give some indication of which versions are supported 
> by which implementations.  They should be fairly current.
>
>>> You can post dkim-milter questions to the dkim-milter mailing list.  I'm 
>>> copying this email to you as the one you receive from this list will fail 
>>> verification.
>> 
>> That wasn't a milter question, but some of the above ARE, and I'll be 
>> mentioning that on those mailing lists shortly.  DKIM seems like a cool 
>> idea, but most of the documentation seems to be SERIOUSLY lacking.
>
> As this has all been experimental and the draft process is not yet completed, 
> it's kind of a moving target so documentation on very specific or uncommon 
> issues can be hard to find.  List archives are also a good place to hunt 
> around for answers to the more common problems.

True, was just a little discouraging to find lists with volume over five 
months in the past two years (and some of them, last posted in 2005 -- I 
think we're fixing that now tho :))

-Dan

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