First blank line after DATA.

Whether that affords sufficient value-add is an open question to me and 
probably 
others.

d/

Ian Eiloart wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 29 October 2009 09:45:31 -0400 Dave CROCKER <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote:
>>>> ... if they can do so, you accept the entire email.
>>>>
>>>> In either case you accept the entire email,
>>>
>>> Not necessarily. ....
> 
> ....
>> I was just at a session at an industry trade association where the
>> question of  doing DKIM during SMTP came up.  There were operations folk
>> who very much liked  the idea of being able to obtain some DKIM benefit
>> during the SMTP session,  before the dot...
>>
>> No one suggested modifying SMTP or DKIM specifications.
>>
>> What /was/ discussed was the possibility of doing a signature that would
>> validate before DATA.  This merely requires a signature that does not
>> cover the  body.
>>
>> I can't say that anyone sounded hugely enthusiastic about this, but given
>> that  there was interest in SMTP-time benefit, I think they just needed
>> to think about  this more.
> 
>> Having two signatures, with one covering the body and relevant parts of
>> the  message header, and the other only covering the header, strike me as
>> a plausible  use of DKIM, worth considering.  I've no idea whether it
>> would provide any or  enough value-add.  However it is only a stylized
>> use of the existing standard,  and so the cost of experimenting with it
>> is reasonable.
> 
> So, how do you get the headers without the body?
> 
>>
>> d/
> 
> 
> 

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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