On Jun 15, 2014, at 6:02 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> Your plan, as I understand it, was that verifiers will ignore a
>>> signature that is too weak.  One might argue clients that accept weak
>>> signatures are already broken, but in that case there are an awful lot
>>> of broken clients, starting with spamassassin.  (I just checked.)
>> 
>> Spamassassin does not pretend to be a DKIM (or DMARC) policy engine,
>> so of course it "accepts" weak signatures.  It accepts invalid and
>> nonexistent signatures, too.
> 
> No, it doesn't.

Yes, SpamAssassin does "accept" weak, invalid, and nonexistent signatures. 

> It calls Mail::DKIM to validate the signatures.

Yes, it does. But SA uses the results of Mail::DKIM heuristically and a DKIM 
failure is frequently not a sufficient basis for rejection.

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.4.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_DKIM.html

Matt
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