Bug#911614: Module Mail::SPF::BlackMagic should be included

[Scott Kitterman]

On October 22, 2018 4:37:14 PM UTC, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx at thregr.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 22 2018, gregor herrmann wrote:
>>   You can easily sub-class Mail::SPF::Server and the
>>   Mail::SPF::Result class collection in order to extend or modify
>>   their behavior. The hypothetical Mail::SPF::BlackMagic package was
>>   once supposed to make use of this.
>>
>> also doesn't increase the hopes.
>
>Hah :/
>
>> So unless someone finds Mail::SPF::BlackMagic somewhere, we won't be
>> able to package/ship it.
>> Otherwise it might make sense to patch out the references to
>> ::BlackMagic from the existing code …

That would make sense.  Black Magic was meant to be a holding ground for non-standardized hacks (like SPF best guess), but it never got past the idea stage and probably never will.

>Basically all the debugging functionality listed in the spfquery
>manpage
>is thus actually unimplemented!?.. That's quite a bit of documentation
>for an hypothetical module!
>
>I had to install the "spfquery" package to actually debug some domain
>rules.

There is also an spfquery provided by spf-tools-python.

Scott K