[ietf-dkim] Inclusion of RCPT TO in signed content

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Thu Aug 25 09:00:03 PDT 2005


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jim Fenton wrote:
>
> In addition to requiring that all MTAs, everywhere, stop sending messages with
> multiple RCPT TO addresses, especially if some of the addresses are not listed
> in the To: or Cc: headers, doesn't this break signatures that pass through
> transparent forwarders?  I have always considered it a major feature of
> DK/IIM/DKIM that transparent forwarding continues to work as-is.

I think the idea is to use it as an auditing feature. In Mr Vendetta's
direct reputation attack, example.com could offer as an excuse "look, I
only sent it to (this set of people)".

Tony.
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