Le 10/01/2010 22:26, Matt Harrison a écrit :
> I say OT because it's my understanding of DKIM that lets me down here, not 
> Gentoo. I'm
> just not sure who to ask or even if it could be something Gentoo related.
> 
> I've recently updated my postfix home mail server to use amavis-new for virus 
> and spam
> filtering rather than procmail/spamassassin.
> 
> It seems to be working well and I've also enabled some other goodies like 
> DKIM signing
> and verification. I haven't confirmed signing is working yet, so maybe a side 
> effect
> of this email is that someone can confirm this for me ;)

Your mail is not DKIM-Signed, check your setup.

> The main query I have is that a lot of the mail I get, in this case from 
> various
> mailing lists, appears to failed DKIM verification.
> 
> For example, several of the posters on this list are DKIM signing their mail 
> either as
> part of gmail policy (or another big provider) or personal intent. Something 
> in the
> region of 50% of signed mail on this list contains headers such as:
> 
> Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=softfail
>         (fail, message has been altered) header...@gmail.com
> Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); 
> domainkeys=softfail
>         (fail, message has been altered) header.from=xxx...@gmail.com
> 
> Whereas the rest looks like this:
> 
> Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); dkim=pass
>         header...@gmail.com
> Authentication-Results: genesis.genestate.com (amavisd-new); domainkeys=pass
>         header.from=xxx...@gmail.com
> 
> Now I find it unreasonable to assume that 50% of the mail I receive is being 
> actively
> tampered with, so it must be something getting twisted out of shape. All I'm 
> trying to
> discover is whether it's something at my end that I need to fiddle with. I 
> followed a
> few different guides to piece my setup together so it's quite possible I've 
> overlooked
> or misconfigured something.

90% chance the emails failing DKIM verification had their email subject modified
to add "[gentoo-user]" in it by the mlmmj program that manage the mailing-list,
which mainly concerns topic starts (ie first mails about one topic).

> If anyone knows about DKIM and might be able to shed a light on this, I'd 
> love to
> hear. It's not a big problem, just a puzzle I'm interested in.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Matt Harrison

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