On 12 Oct 2020, at 03:06, Tom Hendrikx tom@whyscream.net wrote:
On 12-10-2020 10:16, Robert Martin wrote:
I created a client library to send emails for a webapp.
After connecting to the SMTP server with credential setup in CPANEL, and then do NOT add Message-Id header, the DKIM signature 'h' record created by dovecot/WHM is wrong, and a Message-ID (with a capital D) header is added, invalidating the generated DKIM signature value.
This causes outlook, yahoo, gmail and other email recipients to add 'dkim:fail' to the message, and thus relegate it to junk or spam.
The work around is to add to the message a Message-Id with a little ‘d’ header. Then the SMTP server processes the email with the correct generated DKIM, correct DKIM ‘h’ record and does not add a Message-ID header.
My SMTP hosting providers that run the WHM/dovecot/CPANEL software are refusing to raise this as a bug and have requested that I do it.
Hi Robert,
Dovecot does not add DKIM headers, Dovecot doesn't even send email. Aside from that:
- The RFC states that "Message-ID" is the actual spelling: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4
The RFC (5322) states that the headers are not case sensitive:
"This specification uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notation for the formal definitions of the syntax of messages. "
RFC 5234 NOTE:
ABNF strings are case insensitive and the character set for these
strings is US-ASCII.So message-id:, MessAGE-iD:, and Message-Id: are all valid.
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