Famous last words but...What's the worst that could happen? :)

Whether or not you should ignore changes to whitespace and capitalization
seems like a fairly trivial thing.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Maarten Oelering <maar...@postmastery.net>
wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> >> 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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