> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] detecting header mutations after signing
> 
> >Why do we think such a sorting module can't/won't have the
> >intelligence to do the RFC5322 Section 3.6 checks?
> 
> Sheesh, I think I've answered this at least three times now.

Well gosh, I sure do appreciate your patience in dealing with the rest of us 
fools that might not share your view or have something else to offer.

> In the
> absence of a DKIM signature, there is no reason to worry about doubled
> headers since there is no reason to think one is "real" and the other
> "fake".  They're only a threat when they provide a way to make a DKIM
> signed message render differently from what the signer expected.

But some agents, maybe even many of them, do via some mechanism decide that one 
is the "real" one and make a filtering decision based on it.  It might be as 
simple as an MUA electing to render the first one it finds, for some value of 
"first".

> As I've also said before, either DKIM has a SHOULD about doubled
> headers, or the equivalent advice goes into the folklore about what
> you have to do make DKIM useful.  Personally, I think the latter would
> be a cruel joke on future implementors, but apparently other people
> feel differently.

And just like when you said it the first time, I still don't share your view 
that a Security Considerations section of a Draft Standard document can be 
classified as "folklore".


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