Am Montag, 11. Juni 2007 19:29 schrieb Murray S. Kucherawy:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > Perhaps I do not understand the process of verification according to
> > dkim-milter. As far as I thought dkim-milter would add something like:
> >
> > X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: none
> >
> > if there is no signature is present. Am I wrong here?
>
> Yes; as I mentioned in an earlier message, logging "no signature" and
> adding a header to every unsigned message just creates a lot of logging
> and I/O that's not really of interest.
>
> As a matter of fact, a bug was opened against dkim-milter in March of this
> year complaining that we were adding the header and the logging that
> you're requesting, so I removed it then.  (See SourceForge bug #1605766,
> fixed in v0.6.1.)
>
> > Is it possible to configure dkim-milter to work that way?
>
> Not at present.  If you like, open a feature request on SourceForge and
> I'll try to get it into a future version.  However, I'm left wondering why
> your filtering software can't treat the absence of an
> Authentication-Results: header as an indication that the message was
> unsigned.
>
> > Does dkim-milter only add a "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results" header if a
> > signature existed?
>
> It adds that header:
>
> a) if the message was signed; or
> b) if the message was not signed and the sending domain's policy claims to
> sign everything.
>
> The second point here is a bit poorly-defined because DKIM doesn't have a
> sender signing policy yet.  dkim-milter just implements what DomainKeys
> did for now.
>
> -MSK

Hi,

thanks for you explanations. I do understand the process of dkim-milter a 
little bit more.

You are absolutely right, that (except for debugging purposes) the log file 
should be kept as clean as possbile.

On the other hand it might be a good idea to introduce an optionial feature 
that adds a X-DKIM_Authentication-Result Header in any case. In the absense 
of a signature the contents of that header would be "none". It is more logic 
to filter for an existing header than searching for the absense of something. 
This feature should be optional and not switched on by default. So everybody 
who wants this feature could enable that option.

Thank you very much indeed for your explanations again.

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