> > Uh, what situations are those? If DKIM isn't useful for mail sent to > > humans with MUAs, why are we wasting our time? > > A nice strawman.
No, it's an honest question. Many real users read their mail a whole lot less often than we weenies do. I know people who read their mail once a week. > > If your issue is that the time was a week, change the x= time to 15 > > minutes, the mail still lands in the recipient's mailbox in 10 seconds, > > and the user reads mail once an hour. Same problem. > > Then you're not giving x= a value that is in line with the spec either. > DKIM is intended to work over the normal transport lifetime of a mail > message. Now we're back to the original question. How do you as a sender know what is normal in my inbound mail system? You don't. Conversely, if senders are always supposed to set x= to t+1209600, what is the point of x= ? It contains no useful information. Even worse, since there is no reason to assume that a sender will set an x= that is appropriate for a receiver's situation, it is likely to contain disinformation that a sensible receiver should ignore. R's, John _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
