Re: New "Old-" headers emerging from the horizon

Bernd Wurst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 27.01.24 um 15:00 schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
> The problem I see here is this part:
> # If the original email message had a DKIM signature, it has already been
> # evaluated. Removing the BIMI-Location header at this point should not
> # invalidate the signature since it should not be included within it per 
> this
> # spec.
> 
> It's fairly simple to adjust the headers upon receipt, in submit.C, 
> where all the other headers are renamed to Old-.
> 
> But then that's what the mail filter will see.

According to the spec, those two headers, BIMI-Location and 
BIMI-Indicator are not supposed to come from the sender but are set by 
the (last) receiving MTA to tell "its MUA" which logo to display. This 
is done by checking the validity of the other BIMI-headers.

As long as a server does not have BIMI validation functionalty or has no 
MUA that trusts it, it seems to be completely irrelevant if those 
headers are removed or not.

Spec says:
> The BIMI-Location and BIMI-Indicator headers MUST NOT be DKIM signed. This header is untrusted by definition, and is only for use between an MTA and its MUAs, after DKIM has been validated by the MTA. Therefore, signing this header is meaningless, and any messages with it signed are either coming from malicious or misconfigured third parties.

So no filter wants to see these headers, no signature depends on them 
being there or being unaltered.

Maybe the MTA should just leave those headers alone and if someone 
implements a BIMI validation filter, this filter should take care to 
remove those old headers and just put his new ones in place.




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