Bug#290464: [Pkg-exim4-devel] SPF

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:09:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Can't exim do SPF checks itself without having to revert to the
> > external spfquery utility? Or did you avoid this for a purpose, for
> > example to avoid a hard dependency on libspf?
> 
> I avoided it on purpose, because:
> 
>   - Taking into account that I'm responsible for any mistakes in the config,
>   I want it to be simple and well-tested, and the spfquery method is the one
>   I'm best experienced with.
> 
>   - One of your concerns in README.Debian was that you didn't want an additional
>   library dependency.  There's more potential for bugs and maintainance work in
>   a library that is always linked in, that in a configuration snippet that is
>   disabled by default, so I kind of agree with you on this.
> 
>   - I'm not sure if the built-in library supports all the features.  In
>   particular, X-SPF-Guess headers, and other (more agressive) checks that I'm
>   using myself but not putting into the package.

Good reasons. Can you document these in README.Debian FAQ chapter,
like "why are you not using exim's built-in SPF interface?"

> > If you are going a more complicated way to avoid the library
> > dependency, we should have the documentation mention that there is an
> > easier way of using SPF at the cost of locally building the binary
> > packages.
> 
> Ok, will do.

Thanks.

Greetings
Marc

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