That would definitely do it - does it have the ability to sign DKIM? Maybe you should do it there, instead of on exchange. Typically you want to sign DKIM at the edge.

On 3/4/2023 5:48 PM, Salvatore Jr Walter P via mailop wrote:

Something just accored to me, we have a sophos email appliance. All incoming and outgoing email go through that box and it scans everything. Do you think that may be modifying the headers before it leaves our network?

*From:* Josh Daynard <josh.dayn...@icloud.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, March 4, 2023 6:37 PM
*To:* Salvatore Jr Walter P <walter.p.salvat...@warwickri.gov>
*Cc:* Alessandro Vesely <ves...@tana.it>; mailop@mailop.org
*Subject:* [EXT] - Re: [mailop] [EXT] - Re: [EXT] - Re: New member, trying to bring our mail server inline.

    On Mar 4, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Salvatore Jr Walter P via mailop
    <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:

    Sorry, but I have no idea what any of that means?

    what is a z tag?

I was curious as well and managed to find a decent resource here:

What-are-DKIM-Tags_.jpg

What are DKIM Tags? <https://easydmarc.com/blog/what-are-dkim-tags/>

easydmarc.com <https://easydmarc.com/blog/what-are-dkim-tags/>

Bottom line is that the verification error you’re seeing (“signature verification failed”) is an indication that one of the header fields being used to generate the DKIM signature (listed in the h= tag potion of the signature) is being altered *after* the signature has been generated but before the message is relayed to the destination domain.

Looks like z tags can be used in the DKIM signature for debugging purposes … you can copy the original header values that were present during signing into this tag and then when signature verification fails, you can compare those values to what was actually received to see what was altered (assuming whatever altered the header(s) won’t touch the z= tag in your DKIM sig!).

We had this problem early on due to some header fix-ups happening by the MTA post DKIM signing.  You need to be sure that DKIM Signing is basically the last thing that happens before a message is relayed or at least that none of the header fields used to generate the sig are altered!

You would get a different error if the public key couldn’t be retrieved or if the body of the message was altered (body hash mismatch).

- Josh


    ___________________________
    Walter P Salvatore Jr
    Systems Administrator
    Information Technology
    City of Warwick
    (401) 921-9663
    https://www.warwickri.gov
    walter.p.salvat...@warwickri.gov



    ________________________________
    From: Alessandro Vesely <ves...@tana.it>
    Sent: Saturday, March 4, 2023 7:12 AM
    To: Salvatore Jr Walter P; 'mailop@mailop.org'
    Subject: [EXT] - Re: [mailop] [EXT] - Re: New member, trying to
    bring our mail server inline.

    On Fri 03/Mar/2023 21:39:46 +0100 Salvatore Jr Walter P via mailop
    wrote:

        Thanks Mark. I sent an email as suggested and it came back as
        a fail for DKIM.

        “I see you've included a DKIM signature. I've retrieved the
        public key from

        1._domainkey.warwickri.gov

        The signature failed validation. The Auth Result is fail.”



    A failing signature should mean a header change.  That's also what
    I get from
    your posts on mailop, signature verification failed (otherwise
    would 've been
    body hash mismatch).  Can you turn on z= tags?  Otherwise try
    carefully
    comparing the signed fields, from: subject: to: date:, message-id:
    and the
    signature itself.

    Check that no other filters alter those fields after signing.  Can
    you sign
    messages off-line?  Do Bcc: copies verify? (Use any off-line dkim
    verifier.)


    Good luck
    Ale
    --






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