On 2025-11-12 at 07:41:45 UTC-0500 (Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:41:45 +0100)
Thomas Barth via users <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
But any idea, why SA sets DKIM_VALID=-0.1 ?
I don't have a solution for your whole problem but I can answer this...
A valid DKIM signature is not very useful *by itself* in deciding
whether a particular message is ham or spam. Spammers know how to set up
DKIM. That would normally be a reason to make it an unscored sub-rule
(i.e. __DKIM_VALID) however because we believed users may want to know
that without needing to dig too deeply, so we made it a rule on its own.
Giving it a -0.1 score is just a way to make it essentially meaningless
on its own. Arguably it should be -0.01, but that shows up in some cases
as "-0.0" which would be confusing.
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