John Levine wrote in <20250130033602.09eacba78...@ary.qy>: |It appears that Trent Adams <tad...@proofpoint.com> said: |>Erp... that’s where I’d pull back... I wouldn’t suggest it be added \ |>to the charter (that’s a pretty high bar)... rather, let’s chat off to |>the side about how to pull it in. | |I've had informal discussions with the people who maintain Sympa about \ |this. They also flagged the issue of |potentially large diffs in the headers.
Then they better do not look at what for example Microsoft Outlook injects there, for example x-ms-exchange-antispam-messagedata, x-microsoft-antispam-message-info etc. I mean, differences are .. the differences in between versions of a message as they proceed from the sender to the receiver, possibly mutated through mailing-lists. That normal path is pretty short. The differences are pretty small really, except for these senseless transfer-encoding message-list mutations, which, in practice, meaning mailman, happen only once, .. until someone makes them stop doing that completely. So if i can get rid of all the then totally senseless ARC headers, and all the then practically function-less Authorization-Result headers (except for SPF, which practically and normally can only be used with "~all", if only some kind of "alias forwarding" is involved), and if also all the large RSA-based DKIM signatures are turned to Ed, which could at least be a "SHOULD" for a DKIM update, then effectively, in all normal cases, the message will shrink compared to today. I would even expect: to quite some notable extend. (Disturbingly messy HTML / stylesheet soup, and RSA DKIM and ARC signatures are the most terrible inflaters, in my experience.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |In Fall and Winter, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s pint(er). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear _______________________________________________ Ietf-dkim mailing list -- ietf-dkim@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to ietf-dkim-le...@ietf.org
