On Sat, 6 May 2017 15:49:08 +0200
Thore Boedecker wrote:

> Over on my side, the receiving end of these emails, there is my
> spamassassin. SA discovers the DKIM signature and is able to validate
> this signature against the Yahoo server which is totally undesirable
> in my opinion.


It doesn't score anything at all:

  DKIM_SIGNED=0.1,DKIM_VALID=-0.1

and DKIM_VALID doesn't mean much anyway, any spammer can make that hit
if they can add their own header to the spam. It didn't hit
DKIM_VALID_AU.

On Sat, 6 May 2017 14:10:12 +0000
David Jones wrote:

> DKIM is only meant to authenticate that the emails did come from
> a Yahoo server.  It has nothing to do with authorization which is what
> you are looking for.  SPF handles authorization so these emails should
> have a SPF_FAIL rule hit that we can confirm once we see it in
> pastebin.com. 


SPF requires the mail to be sent out through designated hosts. A DKIM
pass for the correct domain means that the email passed through a host
with access to the signing key. DKIM provides better authorization than
SPF.

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