Many folks use edge devices that look/act like an mta but is antispam/av oriented. Dropping a dkim plugin should be no more dificult that deploying a new av engine. thanx, bll
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Thomas Sent: Fri 3/31/2006 6:32 PM To: Mark Delany Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposal for specifying syntax and semantics formultiple signatures Mark Delany wrote: >On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:25:49PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote: > > > >>And let's please not forget that even if this got fixed tomorrow the amount of >>time it takes to significantly deploy new MTA versions is very long - far >>longer than we can afford to wait. >> >> > >I'm confused. We expect wide-spread use of this protocol without >deploying new MTAs? That's quite the feat. > > With milter, you don't have to upgrade your sendmail version. For us, we'd probably have to go through a lot more contortions to get our infosec folks to buy into a new sendmail version for our production environment. Not undoable, but definitely harder. My understanding is that other MTA's have similar plugin kinds of capabilities too. Mike _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html