[ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

[Alessandro Vesely]

On 27/Apr/10 17:02, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Alessandro Vesely<vesely at tana.it>  wrote:
>>  Author signatures are special because the content of the "From" field
>>  is displayed to recipients. Even if many lists claim copy rights et
>>  cetera, the moral responsibility of a message rests with its author. I
>>  think that's why rfc4871 gives the "From" field foremost importance.
>
> Are you sure you got the right RFC here?

Yup:

  The From header field MUST be signed (that is, included in the "h="
  tag of the resulting DKIM-Signature header field).
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4871#section-5.4

(see also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4686#section-4.1.15)