> Good day!  E-Mail security and spam prevention is becoming more relevant as
 > approximately 53.5% of all e-mail traffic worldwide is spam.  There's been
 > numerous enhancements made to e-mail including Sender Policy Framework
 > (SPF), Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance
 > (DMARC), and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).  Currently, and from
 > everything I've reviewed, Synchronet has no ability to embed DKIM header
 > information into outbound e-mail.

 > The advantage of DKIM is the outbound message is signed with a private key.
 > With the combination of the signed message and the DNS record selector
 > (allowing multiple subdomains to coexist), the message is effectively
 > validated from source.  When the receiver reviews the header and inspects
 > the public DNS record, the message is validated.

 > More information can be found at dkim.org.  Within Synchronet, I'd like the
 > ability to embed DKIM into the outbound message header.  The creation of the
 > certificates (public/private) should remain in the hands of the individual
 > SysOp (OpenSSL, Cygwin, PuttyGen, etc.) but the private key location and the
 > hashing of the message (and placement into the header) should become a
 > function of the Internet E-Mail module.

 > What do you think?

 >    Dream Master

perhaps just a semaphore would suffice ...


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