Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 7, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: As far as I recall, Mailman removes DKIM signatures, and re-signs messages. Close, but the spirit is right. Mailman does remove DKIM headers, if configured to do so via a site-wide option. The option is turned off by default. This comment

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel, > > [hacking the from] is not going to be acceptable to a lot of folks, > Apart from the assertions of mailing list software developers I'm > yet to receive a strong assertion from list operators or > users. Er, do you think we write open source purely out of charity? We are all ope

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-09 Thread Carson Gaspar
Daniel Black wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:07:30 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Wouldn't it be more straightforward (not to mention that it would work for many more lists) to have an LDSP RFC, whose first draft simply takes the ADSP RFC and substitutes "mailing list" for "author" everywhe

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Black
Stephen, Thanks you for your responses. On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:07:30 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > In that case it is very often a violation of ... RFC 5322). Surely you already know that! thanks for the reminder. > That's a *lot* of history of best practice that you are dismissing, The

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Black writes: > > You're saying that with ADSP, that's not adequate unless Mailman > > first rewrites the "From:" address. > yes In that case it is very often a violation of RFC 733 (most familiarly known as RFC 822, also STD 11, whose most recent incarnation is RFC 5322). Surely you

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Black
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 21:00:52 Ian Eiloart wrote: > As far as I recall, Mailman removes DKIM signatures, yes > and re-signs messages. not that I recall though the MTA is free to sign it on the way out and I encourage all list owners to do so. > You're saying that with ADSP, that's not adeq

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 October 2009 00:21:08 +1100 Daniel Black wrote: That last paragraph makes the job of reputation assignment harder where mailing lists are concerned - but that's to be expected. The whole point of DKIM, as far as I'm concerned, is to allow more sophisticated assessment and assignment

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 October 2009 00:21:08 +1100 Daniel Black wrote: we know the message came from a mailing list, this actually is the hard bit. Options for the recipient verifier are: 1. has a List-ID (or other signature) - must be a mailist. This allows email spoofers just to add List-ID tags or a s

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 October 2009 00:21:08 +1100 Daniel Black wrote: It seems to me that it's sensible for the list software to test the DKIM signature before and after any changes it makes to the message. You can tell from the mailing list settings if it will break without revalidating it. Same policies

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 October 2009 00:21:08 +1100 Daniel Black wrote: You're saying that with ADSP, that's not adequate unless Mailman first rewrites the "From:" address. yes, as its easiest place in the whole signing verification scenario to make a change that benefits the most people without adversely

Re: [Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
As far as I recall, Mailman removes DKIM signatures, and re-signs messages. You're saying that with ADSP, that's not adequate unless Mailman first rewrites the "From:" address. Some lists are configured to do this already, the question is what to do about those that don't. Dave Crocker suggest

[Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Black
I proposed some ideas around DKIM compatibility with mail lists and tried to send here too. Obviously the anti-cross-post feature on mailman- develop...@python.org is working well (which on some levels I appreciate). As leading maillist product I'm keep to know your opinion. This has obviously

[Mailman-Developers] dkim and email list software - potential solution

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Black
Folks, Please excuse the massive cross post and reply to the dkim-dev list if possible and it is of collective interest to many email list software implementers. I've put together a paper on DKIM that I've just put out for review. It is available here[1] if anyone would like to review it. Feed