Re: Postfix support for SRS and SPF

From: Scott Kitterman (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 10:08:28 EDT

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    On Monday 02 April 2007 05:50, Frank Church wrote:
    > Do the recent version of postfix 2.3.x onwards have built in support
    > for dealing with SPF and SRS?
    >
    > Are they in the form of patches or already built in?

    You will find Postifx patches for SPF online, but their use is not
    recommended. Much better to use the policyd interface (as Ralf already
    suggested).

    On Monday 02 April 2007 05:57, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
    >
    > Yes, the policyd interface

    On the SPF implementations page:

    http://www.openspf.org/Implementations

    You will find a number of SPF policy servers for Postfix listed under
    Extensions and Patches for Mail Servers.

    On Monday 02 April 2007 06:03, Robert Schetterer wrote:
    > Hi Frank,
    > there should be example perl code in the src code of postfix for spf,
    > after all i have integrated it in my servers and it works nice.

    There is an older version included with Postfix 2.3 (and even older versions
    with 2.2 and 2.1), but for the upcoming Postfix 2.4 release the decision was
    made to just refer to the source location. See:

    http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html
    http://www.openspf.org/Software

    Both of the policy servers listed there have been updated to use libraries
    that support the final RFC 4408 SPF design.

    > I think milters are on the web too.

    With the exception of SID milter from Sendmail, Inc. all of the SPF related
    milters I've looked at have an SRS component that uses Sendmail specific
    calls to modify Mail From and so I don't think there is a good SPF specific
    milter solution for Postifx at the moment.

    > But detecting spam with spf goes nearly /dev/null
    > cause spammers are the first ones who have spf entries.
    > Spf is good in spamd , to have just one more value to detect spam.
    > As spf code ist patented by m$ i would recommend using
    > dkim.

    This is not correct. MS has applied for (or gotten, I've lost track) a patent
    related to their SenderID which is related to SPF, but SPF itself is AFAIK
    free of any patent issues.

    I am not aware of a working SRS implementation for Postfix (I think you would
    have to implement it in a SMTP Filter).

    Scott K


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