[Mailman-Developers] Dealing with DomainKeys and DKIM

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Mon Sep 12 16:54:24 CEST 2005



--On 12 September 2005 08:48:45 -0600 Joe Peterson <joe at skyrush.com> wrote:

> Yep, sendmail.  I'm curous, though: how does Exim know that the mail it
> is about to deliver is going to Mailman?  Does it key off of the fact
> that it's about to deliver to the mailman program?

Yes, that's exactly it. In fact, it checks the presence of the list 
configuration file.

> Well, in any case,
> if it's done in Cleanse.py in Mailman, the mailer doesn't have to be
> tweaked, and there's no reason, as Barry said, for Mailman to preserve
> DomainKeys type headers...

No, that's fair enough.

> 	-Joe
>
>
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> Ah, so you're thinking of Sendmail, or something similar. I'm thinking
>> of  Exim, which can easily remove the specific headers for an email that
>> it's  delivering to Mailman. So, Exim doesn't know that Mailman is going
>> to  change the headers, but it can be told!



-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS



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