At 16:46 06-11-2008, Mark Martinec wrote:
>...nor does "relaxed" help when sendmail inserts a FWS where there was none
>originally, like after a comma separating addresses in a To: header field
>(or after a colon, as was already mentioned here). Seems like the To field
>is subject to more threats than most other header fields - and since it is
>pretty much an informative-only header field (addresses are propagated
>out-of-band in the envelope from MSA to the final delivery, the To: has
>no effect on mail delivery nor on DSN), I don't think it is a great loss
>to just leave it out of the signature.

Section 5.5 of the DKIM specification has a list of headers that 
should be included in the signature.  The To: header is part of that.

It's not a good idea not to sign the To: header as it's part of the 
"visible" headers that are displayed in the MUA.

Regards,
-sm



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