[Hidden-tech] Digitally signed email

[Matthew Crocker]

Will,

    Most spam filtering software does not do anything with signed  
messages. It doesn't mark them up or down as far as I know.  It would  
be nice if the mail server could pull the public key and verify the  
signature on the fly but that is very CPU intensive.  SpamAssassin  
could be patched to verify the signatures, it might already have been  
done.

-Matt

On Sep 7, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Will Loving wrote:

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> Does anyone know whether spam filters give priority to digitally  
> signed
> emails? I just registered for and started using the Free Email  
> security
> certificate from http://www.comodogroup.com and I wondered if it  
> will make
> it less likely for spam filters to reject my emails.
>
> Macintosh users be aware that Comodo's signup form does not play  
> well with
> the Mac OS. The form expects IE 5.0+ for Windows and I was not able to
> obtain a certificate using Safari, FireFox or IE 5.2 for Mac. I  
> finally had
> to do it on my Windows machine, then export the certificate from  
> Outlook
> Express (where it was automatically installed), the import it into
> Entourage.
>
> Will
>
> Will Loving, President
> Dedication Technologies, Inc.
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