Re: dkim failed, but bonus?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:32:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Bill Cole wrote (2025-11-12 17:52):
>>A valid DKIM signature is not very useful *by itself* in deciding
>>whether a particular message is ham or spam. Spammers know how to
>>set up DKIM. That would normally be a reason to make it an unscored
>>sub-rule (i.e. __DKIM_VALID) however because we believed users may
>>want to know that without needing to dig too deeply, so we made it
>>a rule on its own. Giving it a -0.1 score is just a way to make it
>>essentially meaningless on its own. Arguably it should be -0.01,
>>but that shows up in some cases as "-0.0" which would be confusing.

On 13.11.25 10:29, Thomas Barth via users wrote:
>I understand this and it's ok. I just want to get DKIM_INVALID if the 
>signature is invalid. I am trying to find out why the results differ 
>and who is right, opendkim or SA's dkim-check. opendkim itself 
>actually works for me with regular emails, even if two signatures have 
>to be checked.

Sorry I missed your first email...

Are you sure the SA header comes from your server?
Perhaps spammer injected own one?


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