DKIMCore promotes the use of simple body canocalization:
http://dkimcore.org/deployment/dkim.html.

Should ESPs use relaxed body canocalization instead to avoid these (rare)
validation issues?

Thanks,

Maarten Oelering
Postmastery

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 at 20:29, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote:

> >
>
> > On Dec 11, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Dave Crocker <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > On 12/10/2016 8:08 AM, Al Iverson wrote:
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> >> Suggestion...modify the template to remove all the tabs or replace
>
> >> them with spaces, and try again. If it passes on both, then you've
>
> >> found that something in the delivery path is replacing tabs with
>
> >> spaces, invalidating the DKIM signature.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > The original DKIM header field seems to show use of 'relaxed' which
> ought to make sp/tab transformations transparent.
>
> >
>
> >    "Convert all sequences of one or more WSP characters to a single SP
>
> >     character."
>
> >
>
> > hmmm...
>
>
>
> c=relaxed is identical to c=relaxed/simple, so these messages sent with
> c=relaxed are sensitive to whitespace changes in the body.
>
>
>
> (Not the first time I've seen this, and it's arguably a usability bug in
> the DKIM spec.)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Steve
>
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