[ietf-dkim] DKIM and mailing lists

[Dave Crocker]

>> What do you mean "stay away from"?  Multiple From addresses are legal
>> and gets used occasionally, with existing MUAs.
>>
>> Unless DKIM is going to attempt to change RFC2822 rules, we cannot
>> have DKIM fail to handle a legal header case.
> Agreed; what I said wasn't very clear.  What I meant was that we should
> avoid additional usage of multiple From fields as part of DKIM.  For
> example, one way of making the signer address visible might be to put it
> in the From field as an additional author, e.g.:
> 
> From: "Jim Fenton" <fenton at cisco.com>, "Signed by ietf-dkim"
> <ietf-dkim-bounces at mipassoc.org>

oh.  right.  i entirely agree.  as i've commented many times, i think the DKIM 
specification should stay away from human factors issues, such as signaling 
signatures via the From field.


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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