Hi Jose-Marcio,
At 12:05 17-01-2008, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
>I was thinking about two low probabilities situations.
>
>If I was a spammer, I'd add a faked "Authentification-Results" header.
>This trick can work if :
>* for some reason, dkim-filter unluckly dies friday night, and stay dead
>    during all week-end. In this case, forged Authentication-Results
>    will be passed to my filter who will consider it's OK.

That would be a problem in such a situation as your filter 
automatically trusts the A-R header it is getting.  I would make sure 
that the message doesn't get through (tempfail) if dkim-filter 
dies.  That may not be an acceptable "fix" in some environments as 
mail won't be coming in over the weekend.  Using the queue-id would 
only lower the probability further.

>* for some reason, dkim-filter is running but it doesn't remove previous
>    authentication headers. Is this possible without a misconfiguration
>    issue ?

This situation would arise only if there is a bug in dkim-filter.

These situations have been discussed on the Authentication-Results 
mailing list.  Murray posted another proposal 
(draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-esmtp-00) which conveys the information 
through an SMTP extension instead of a mail header.  That should 
reduce the scope for forgeries.

Regards,
-sm 


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