Re: [art] Argh!!!! onto https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:27 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>  |Yes, there are some things in OpenDKIM that have to do with the way
> values
>  |are passed in via the milter API, but the intent was to keep those inside
>  |the filter code, separate from the library.  The library is supposed to
> be
>  |generic.
>
> I do not know about OpenDKIM, even though i had the tarball laying
> around since some years.  (I have read the manual page, for
> example.) I only grep(1)ped for canonicalization.
>
> But regardless, the thing is that Google, Microsoft, "amavisd",
> rspamd, they all require exactly this behaviour to make the
> signature verify!  What do you mean by "generic"?
>

I mean the library is intended to work correctly as long as you pass it
RFC-compliant input, and it will return to you RFC-compliant output.  It
doesn't know anything about the environment around it (and shouldn't need
to).

The filter that invokes the library is where all the milter-specific
handling happens, converting data with milter quirks into their
standards-compliant equivalents (e.g., the folded header field terminations
you mentioned earlier), for example.

-MSK