Re: [exim] DKIM verification and envelope-from

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Author: Robert Wysocki
Date:  
To: Wolfgang Breyha
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] DKIM verification and envelope-from
Dnia 2012-04-27, pią o godzinie 14:50 +0200, Wolfgang Breyha pisze:
> Robert Wysocki wrote, on 26.04.2012 13:07:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm trying to achieve configuration that would verify DKIM signatures
> > for known signers.
> > Everything works fine until envelope-from address is one of known
> > signers. But many spams have envelope-from set differently than From:
> > header, eg. injectingy472@??? in envelope-from and
> > something@??? in From: header.
> > This enables them to bypass DKIM signature checks and therefor to bypass
> > one of the anti-spam mechanisms.
>
> DKIM has no relation to envelope from. DKIM signs and protects the From:
> header (and others). Using envelope from for anything related to DKIM can only
> produce false positives, eg. common forwards.


Thanks, but I know that.
I believe my question was about something else.

Regards,
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Robert Wysocki
administrator systemów linuksowych
CONTIUM S.A., http://www.contium.pl