[Pkg-exim4-users] SPF, update for the default example & documentation

[Gijs Hillenius]

On  3 July 2020 19:39 Andreas Metzler, wrote:

> On 2020-07-01 Gijs Hillenius <gijs at hillenius.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> So.. that points me to perhaps another tweak in the Exim configuration
>> that I did not update:
>
>> my conf has
>> acl_check_mail:
>>   .ifdef CHECK_MAIL_HELO_ISSUED
>>   deny
>>     message = no HELO given before MAIL command
>>     condition = ${if def:sender_helo_name {no}{yes}}
>>   .endif
>
>> whereas the exim4.conf.template.dpkg seems to suggest this should now be
>
>>   require message       = nice hosts say HELO first
>>           condition     = ${if def:sender_helo_name}
>
> Hello,
>
> I think these should do exactly the same thing. »${if
> def:sender_helo_name}« returns true or an empty string, »${if
> def:sender_helo_name {no}{yes}}« no or yes. A condition statement is
> true for "yes" or "true", and false for "no", "false" or an empty
> string.

Thanks Andreas for looking into this.

Your reply makes me unsure. If these /are/ the same, what else could be
causing the SPF check failure?

Done manually, the SPF result is pass. However it failed in the (then)
running Exim configuration.

O well. I've disabled the SPF check for now.