RE: General OpenDKIM setup questions

From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah_at_zimbra.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 13:29:32 -0700

--On Thursday, May 03, 2012 8:15 PM +0000 "Murray S. Kucherawy"
<msk_at_cloudmark.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah_at_zimbra.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:15 PM
>> To: Murray S. Kucherawy; opendkim-users_at_lists.opendkim.org
>> Subject: RE: General OpenDKIM setup questions
>>
>> Ok. What happens on the verification side if email X is sent out at
>> 10:01:01, signed by "quanah2011", then the keys are updated at 10:01:02
>> to "quanah2012", and the mail doesn't get verified on the receiving end
>> (some remote domain with slow transports say. :P ) until 10:02:05 or
>> something?
>> Will verification still succeed?
>
> Verification succeeds if the key is still in the DNS. So when you rotate
> a new key in, you should allow some overlap before removing the older key
> from the DNS.

Great, thanks!

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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