Re: The signing decision, and a patch proposal

From: SM <sm_at_resistor.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:17 -0700

Hi Murray,
At 12:16 24-09-2009, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>A patch was submitted to dkim-milter we might want to consider for
>opendkim. It involves making the key selection predicated on the
>value of one of the MTA's SMTP AUTH macros rather than the From:
>domain. You can't do this on opendkim now since it can only check
>headers, not macros, for that value. I can see this being practical
>at places that sign for lots of domains and do SMTP AUTH. We might
>even want to set "i=" for such clients.

I think that some people may find that feature useful as you can tie
the "identity" from SMTP AUTH with the DKIM identity. You could use
that for the local-part and get the domain name from the From: if one
isn't provided.

Regards,
-sm
Received on Wed Sep 30 2009 - 05:18:47 PST