NAME¶
Mail::DKIM::Policy - abstract base class for originator "signing"
policies
SYNOPSIS¶
# get all policies that apply to a verified message
foreach my $policy ($dkim->policies)
{
# the name of this policy
my $name = $policy->name;
# the location in DNS where this policy was found
my $location = $policy->location;
# apply this policy to the message being verified
my $result = $policy->apply($dkim);
}
DESCRIPTION¶
Between the various versions of the DomainKeys/DKIM standards, several different
forms of sender "signing" policies have been defined. In order for
the Mail::DKIM library to support these different policies, it uses several
different subclasses. All subclasses support this general interface, so that a
program using Mail::DKIM can support any and all policies found for a message.
METHODS¶
These methods are supported by all classes implementing the Mail::DKIM::Policy
interface.
apply()¶
Apply the policy to the results of a DKIM verifier.
my $result = $policy->apply($dkim_verifier);
The caller must provide an instance of Mail::DKIM::Verifier, one which has
already been fed the message being verified.
Possible results are:
- accept
- The message is approved by the sender signing policy.
- reject
- The message is rejected by the sender signing policy.
- neutral
- The message is neither approved nor rejected by the sender
signing policy. It can be considered suspicious.
as_string()¶
The policy as a string.
Note that the string returned by this method will not necessarily have the tags
ordered the same as the text record found in DNS.
is_implied_default_policy()¶
Is this policy implied?
my $is_implied = $policy->is_implied_default_policy;
If you fetch the policy for a particular domain, but that domain does not have a
policy published, then the "default policy" is in effect. Use this
method to detect when that happens.
location()¶
Where the policy was fetched from.
This is generally a domain name, the domain name where the policy was published.
If nothing is published for the domain, and the default policy was returned
instead, the location will be "undef".
name()¶
Identify what type of policy this is.
This currently returns strings like "sender", "author", and
"ADSP". It is subject to change in the next version of Mail::DKIM.
SEE ALSO¶
Mail::DKIM::DkPolicy - for RFC4870(historical) DomainKeys sender signing
policies
Mail::DKIM::DkimPolicy - for early draft DKIM sender signing policies
Mail::DKIM::AuthorDomainPolicy - for Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
AUTHOR¶
Jason Long, <jlong@messiah.edu>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 by Messiah College
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option,
any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.