[ietf-dkim] Re: New Issue: Problems with Scenario 4: Resent

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Thu Sep 21 09:53:43 PDT 2006


Frank Ellermann wrote:

>Dave Crocker wrote:
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>>or what?
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>It's about mail with one or more Resent-From or Resent-Sender
>header fields as far as I'm concerned.
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>>all of the discussion about signing by Alice is irrelevant,
>>since the later focus seems to be on signing by the
>>re-poster, Bob.
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>Whatever SSP does (and the more interesting case is a "Bob" who
>is completely DKIM-unaware), the mail should not be rejected
>by the next receiver(s) no matter what Alice's SSP says.  Bob
>is perfectly entitled to resend a mail he got using the header
>fields specified in STD 11 or 2822.
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>Where "reject" is of course the least problematic outcome, but
>"annotate as suspicious", the weasel words for "delete", would
>be wrong.
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I agree, and I'd appreciate some help on how to make this clear. The
corresponding requirement is actually in the form of a negative in
requirement #12.

Maybe I just need some forward references in the scenarios to the
fundamental corresponding requirements?

       Mike


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