Bug#466433: ITP: dkfilter -- implements domainKeys message signing and verification

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> As Yahoo! requests DomainKeys to be implemented for sending mail to
>> them, it's quite urgent that this package reaches SID asap to allow
>> people to be able to send email to Yahoo!
> 
> This is not correct.  Yahoo! will be moving from DK to DKIM 'real soon'.  
> Additionally it's not clear that Yahoo! uses DK/DKIM signatures in their 
> inbound filtering.  Last I checked (it's been a few months) they still set 
> the test flag on their outbound signstures. 
>  
>> Note that this package is NOT to be confused with dk-filter (with a
>> dash) that is a package for Sendmail, and that has nothing to do with
>> the perl scripts for which I'm doing an ITP (even though both intend
>> to implement DomainKeys, one is for Sendmail, while this one is for
>> Postfix).
> 
> Postfix 2.3 and later support Sendmail milters.  I've been running 
> dkim-filter (the DKIM equivalent of dk-filter) for nearly a year with 
> Postfix 2.3/2.4 with no problems.
> 
> Personally, I wouldn't waste any time on DK.  It's time is nearly past.
> 
> Scott K

Hi,

Thanks for your remarks.

At the time of packaging dkfilter, I didn't know about dkim-filter. The
project here:

http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/

that is the "sister" project that is said to "supersede" dkfilter is
still in development. I thought we would package dkimproxy later on, and
use dkfilter in the mean while.

Now, dkfilter exists, and thanks to it, Yahoo! is not blocking our mail
any more on our servers. So we are quite happy with it, and we will work
later on with other project. I still would appreciate a lot if dkfilter
was in SID so we could continue to work with it until we adapt our
software to any dkim singing system.

Thomas