> On 20 Nov 2022, at 16:30, Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 11/10/2022 5:32 AM, Steve Atkins wrote:
>> A heuristic I’ve suggested previously is “If the recipient’s email address 
>> is not in the To: or Cc: header then treat the mail as unsigned”.
> 
> Even if it is showing in a (signed) BCC field?

Definitely. I wouldn’t want to encourage any use of the Bcc field beyond the 
smarthost, let alone any belief that signing it was a good idea.

The content of the Bcc field, or even the existence of it, at the time it’s 
received by the MX is at best implementation-defined. Signing it at
the smarthost is going to cause DKIM to fail far more often than not.

4871 says:

>  The following header fields SHOULD NOT be included in the signature:
> 
>    o  Return-Path
> 
>    o  Received
> 
>    o  Comments, Keywords
> 
>    o  Bcc, Resent-Bcc
> 
>    o  DKIM-Signature

6376 does not. I’m not sure why that changed.

Cheers,
  Steve
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