Plan for SPF in future default MTA?

[Zach Wilkinson]

FYI, :)

Received-SPF: fail (spirit.local.linuxlobbyist.org: domain of
 pri.rhl1 at iadonisi.to does not designate 192.168.111.8 as
 permitted sender)

Just for giggles,


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Iadonisi" <pri.rhl1 at iadonisi.to>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Plan for SPF in future default MTA?


> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 20:58, Zach Wilkinson wrote:
> > http://spf.pobox.com discusses a spam prevention system that requires
> > MTAs such as Sendmail and Postfix to configured to check a senders
> > authenticity.
> > Is there any plan to enable SPF in future default or optional MTAs
> > that ship with Fedora?
> 
>   I sincerely doubt it will happen any time soon for the simple fact
> that it is far, far too early to consider it as a default feature.  The
> specification isn't even finalized and is in somewhat of a state of
> flux.  If it is being considered, I sure hope Red Hat takes the
> wait-and-see approach.
>   There's also significant opposition to SPF as it breaks forwarding and
> the proposed solution , SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme) has a long way to
> go before enough administrators have confidence that it won't
> effectively turn their mail systems into open relays even temporarily.
>   That said, I have rpms of the sendmail-milter-spf perl script (with an
> init script and other fixes) along with the necessary perl modules to
> support it.  If anyone's interested, I can make these available.  They
> are built and running on my FC1 mail server, but will probably rebuild
> (if needed; most are noarch) just fine on FC2T2+updates.
> -- 
> -Paul Iadonisi
>  Senior System Administrator
>  Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
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