[ietf-dkim] Re: "I sign everything" yes/no

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Nov 24 13:29:58 PST 2006


On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:20:00 -0000, Hector Santos <hsantos at santronics.com>  
wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Lindsey"  
> <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>

>
>>>> And that MUST is going to haunt us again when EAI happens,
>>>> because both From and Sender may well get changed in transit.
>
>>> A retransmission.  Doesn't apply.
>
>> No, it is NOT a retransmissiom. Read the EAI drafts.
>
> Huh?  You said above "Changed in Transit"  That is by definition a  
> retransmission.  Some middle ware/router is doing the "changed in  
> transit" right?

If an email is changed from Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit to  
quoted-printable or base64 as it passes from an 8BITMIME-compliant MTA to  
a Non-8BITMIME-compliant MTA, is that "retransmission", or not?

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