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How to Preserve the Message Headers Used by the DKIM Signing When Using Axigen as a Mail Gateway

Sep 7, 2015  •  2 min. read

When messages are DKIM signed using the "simple" Header Canonicalization Algorithm, the message headers must not be modified when the message transits intermediate mail servers in order for the DKIM verification to pass.

If the DKIM signed messages are relayed via a mail gateway it is preferable to use the "relaxed" Header Canonicalization Algorithm which is more tolerant to common in-transit modifications like white space replacement and line wrapping.

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