Re: Oversigning Resent-xxx headers

John Levine via Exim-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.user
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Slavko via Exim-users <[email protected]> said:
>The docs says, that when dkim_sign_headers is not specified, **the
>header names listed in RFC4871 will be used, ...

>Beside the fact, that RFC4871 is obsoleted by RFC6376 (which removed
>whole that list), exim implements it wrongly, as the RFC4871 mentions
>**SHOULD be included in the signature, if they are present in the
>message** (only From is required to sign always), but exim signs them
>(by default) all, despite if they are in message or not.

OK, that sounds about as wrong as I feared.  I'll tell the guy it's
a bug in Exim and if he cares about his mail, he should adjust the
configuration to sign a reasonable set of headers.

R's,
John

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