Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the current status of SPF and Courier? I note that SPF can be > implemented as a 3rd party filter via a perl object library, but does > this handle issues such as sender address rewriting (I have _lots_ of > customer mail redirections on my mail server)?
No, Courier::Filter::Module::SPF does not do sender address rewriting (it technically cannot do this in an elegant way). Although the SPF concept as a whole cannot work without sender address rewriting (using SRS or some custom method), SPF checking and sender address rewriting are distinct concepts. Theoretically, for your server to do SPF checking when receiving messages, you don't need to rewrite sender addresses when forwarding, i.e. sending, messages. Only when a server you forward messages to performs SPF checking is sender address rewriting required. For an elegant solution, sender address rewriting would need to be integrated directly into Courier. A hackish solution would be to "deliver" to-be-forwarded messages locally to a script (e.g. by using a dot-courier file) that programmatically reinjects the message with rewritten sender and recipient addresses. Maybe there's yet another way, but I currently don't see it. > Are there any plans to incorporate this as a standard feature in > Courier, and if so, when? As far as I know Sam doesn't like the SPF concept and thus, SPF or sender address rewriting isn't one of his priorities. *I* do like SPF, so maybe I will at some point create a proper patch, but it is highly unlikely that this will happen within the next 6 months. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
