> You're ignoring my point that you should stop sending [signed] spam email
by interpreting it as "stop signing email".

Yeah, if only we had a 100% accurate way to tell spam/ham for every single
message.

> These emails were DKIM signed by the sender; except for the ones with
> additional unsigned headers the signature has not been hijacked. The
> sender has DKIM signed a spam email.

Oversigning is supposed to break the additional unsigned headers.

> If you are unwilling to moderate spam email from new accounts before
> DKIM signing their email with your own domain then I suggest you use a
> separate DKIM selector for each of them so that you can revoke them
> quickly. This does not require additional keys because the selector name
> is covered by the signature.

That's a good idea, thanks. We're looking into how to implement that on our
side.



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ed...@sender.net




On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:57 PM Simon Arlott via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:

> On 02/03/2022 18:09, Edgaras | SENDER wrote:
> >> No, that's quite clearly not literally true. Stop DKIM signing the spam
> > email and the problem goes away.
> > Yep, and go directly against all the best email practices, guidelines and
> > so on.
>
> You're ignoring my point that you should stop sending [signed] spam
> email by interpreting it as "stop signing email".
>
> >> You may not like it but Google is implementing DMARC correctly if the
> > DKIM signature is still valid.
> > The point is not their implementation of DMARC. It's how they handle
> > messages from obvious spam sources, which funnily enough don't satisfy
> any
> > of their own guidelines https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126,
> > except for a hijacked DKIM signature.
>
> These emails were DKIM signed by the sender; except for the ones with
> additional unsigned headers the signature has not been hijacked. The
> sender has DKIM signed a spam email.
>
> If you are unwilling to moderate spam email from new accounts before
> DKIM signing their email with your own domain then I suggest you use a
> separate DKIM selector for each of them so that you can revoke them
> quickly. This does not require additional keys because the selector name
> is covered by the signature.
>
> DKIM selectors can include "." so you can even use a wildcard DNS record
> for them and only add a non-wildcard record for the ones you need to
> revoke. A short TTL will be necessary but you would only need to do that
> for the subset of selectors used for email that could be spam.
>
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