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Spam Resource: Microsoft: Body hash did not verify error
- August 3, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just issued a new brilliant story on Spam Resource:
If you’re seeing intermittent DKIM authentication failures at Microsoft domains (outlook.com, hotmail.com, etc.) — meaning you’re seeing “dkim=fail (body hash did not verify)” instead of “dkim=pass (signature was verified)” in your “Authentication Results” email headers — then what likely has happened is that Microsoft has modified one or more characters in your email message.See, there’s multiple ways to encode email messages for sending them via the Internet — the oldest, default way of just plain text (7-bit ASCII text) doesn’t allow for emojis, accented characters, special character sets, Kanji, anything beyond just the simple characters used to write English-language text. And to allow email to be transmitted in this simplistic character set, but allow for additional, extended characters and alternative character sets, methods of encoding were created that allowed email platforms to do things like specify complicated multi-byte characters by “encoding” them into Quoted-Printable or Base64, to allow them to
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