Re: DNS/DKIM issue with tuxfamily.org?

Adrian Zaugg <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:19:25 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID	<3506578.Nk5g646vge@haiash>
Hi Joe

Your admin should be more precise: The mailing list or the servers that send 
the mail for the list do not add a DKIM header, only some of the member mail 
server do add a DKIM header.

Because a mailing list software alters some headers, like the subject, such 
headers should not be used in DKIM, it leads to a failed verification. Mails, 
which fail a DKIM verification can only be discarded safely, when the _adsp 
record of the sender says dkim=discardable in all other cases, the mail should 
get delivered, see under [1].

This DKIM issue can only be addressed from your admin to take into account, 
that mailing list software do exist, are used and aren't 100% compatible with 
DKIM, and as well that some admins configure DKIM in a bad way for mailing 
lists.

That means upon receiving a mail: Do not decide to never discard mails having 
a failed DKIM verification, give them a higher SPAM score instead. Decrease 
the SPAM score for mails having a List-... header (resp. use the corresponding 
test from spamassassin, if applicable).

Furthermore your admin should change your DKIM record not to contain the 
subject, content-type and mime-version, which helps to verify a DKIM 
successfully even if the mail was altered by a mailing list software.

Regards, Adrian.

[1] https://dkim.org/specs/draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-04.html

In der Nachricht vom Tuesday, 12 December 2023 14:50:17 CET steht:
> Emails that I receive from tuxfamily.org for this group are being blocked by
> my organization, reportedly for security because of a failed DKIM lookup.
> My sysadmin indicated that the DKIM in DNS would need to be fixed. I tried
> sending an email to the tuxfamily.org admin a while back but got no
> response. I probably won't receive the responses to this if you respond to
> the group. Perhaps you can reply to me directly. I do apologize for this
> being off topic. I'd like to continue receiving these emails but can't if
> this DKIM issue isn't addressed. If any of you are able to look into this,
> it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Happy Holidays!
 
> 
> Joe Smith
> 
> Senior Software Engineer
> 
> Phoenix Defense
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