Hello,
At 22:47 11-05-2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>Thanks for all the helpful hints and advice!
>I beg your patience with me. Can you help me generate an appropriate 
>DNS entry for DKIM?
>
>1/ I do NOT use domainkeys, nor do I plan to do so.
>2/ I ONLY use DKIM and all mail sent from lists.lc-words.com is 
>signed with DKIM signature.
>
>If I drop the "o=-" entry, that will just mean that some of the 
>lists.lc-words.com mail may be signed with domainkeys, right?

The (DomainKeys) sending domain policy for lc-words.com is retrieved 
from _domainkey.lc-words.com.  The "o" in there defines your outbound 
signing policy.  As you are not signing with DomainKeys, there is no 
need for a "o" entry.  If you drop that entry, there is no statement 
being made about whether you sign with DomainKeys or not.  Note that 
DomainKeys is _not_ DKIM.


>If so, what should the correct DNS entry for DKIM look like?
>I did look at http://www.elandsys.com/resources/sendmail/dkim.html
>where they suggest
>mail._domainkey.example.com. IN TXT "k=rsa;

In that example, "mail" is the selector.  The syntax is 
selector._domainkey.signingdomain.  The public key is also required 
in that record.

>entry, so in my case should it be
>_domainkey.lists.lc-words.com IN TXT "krsa;
>?

In your (DKIM) case, if the signing domain is lists.lc-words.com, 
then the entry would be lcwords._domainkey.lists.lc-words.com where 
"lcwords" is the selector.

>I currently have:
>_domainkey.lists.lc-words.com. 2640 IN  TXT     "o=-\;"

You can remove that TXT record.

>Anyway, I used the auto-response mechanism for checking DKIM and 
>here's what I got:
>DKIM Test: pass (1024-bit key)

This means that the DKIM signature is successfully verified.  Your 
lcwords._domainkey.lists.lc-words.com record is correct.

>DKIM Author Signing Practice: no DNS record

This is the policy part of DKIM where the author domain can publish 
its signing practice.  Note that this is still a draft specification 
which means that it may be changed in a later draft.

You can publish the following TXT record:

  _asp._domainkey.lists.lc-words.com    dkim=all

which means that the lists.lc-words.com domain signs all outgoing 
mail with DKIM.

Regards,
-sm 


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