RE: [vps-mail] SPF implimentation

["Ron Pero" <rpero@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much Weldon for the clear note. It is good to know that you
and others are indeed looking at it, and good to know your reasons for going
slow with it. Thanks again.
Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Weldon Whipple
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:28 AM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [vps-mail] SPF implimentation
>
>
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Ron Pero wrote:
>
> > That is probably true. I would feel better about doing it if
> Verio were to
> > "bless" it, to investigate it and say to us: "This is a good idea. We
> > encourage you to do it. Here are instructions."
> >
> > Anyone at Verio reading this? Any thoughts about this?
>
> Verio is investigating it. (I, for one am investigating it; others at
> Verio are also investigating it.) Verio isn't yet prepared to bless SPF,
> however. Here are a few reasons (others may want to give other reasons):
>
> 1. The current implementation requires a special build of the perl
> interpreter. The perl developers warn that the resulting perl might be
> unstable.
>
> 2. aol.com has published SPF records. (You can view them by typing:
>
> % dig txt aol.com
>
> at your VPS command line.) However, at the end of their SPF record you
> will see "?all", which causes spf-milter to treat AOL's SPF record as if
> it doesn't exist ... more or less.
>
> 3. Many other major e-mail providers don't publish SPF records. In fact,
> they all seem to be "doing their own thing."
>
> 4. Today's SPF record format is *very* different from what it was a year
> ago when I tested it.
>
> 5. It would be irresponsible for Verio to officially "bless" anything that
> isn't stable--in its specifications, functionality, and acceptance.  (The
> last thing we want to do is have thousands of customers's sendmails
> crashing because of unstable code!!)
>
> Having stated the above, there is nothing to prevent you from trying out
> any of the emerging technologies on your own. My experience is that just
> about any instructions that work on "real" FreeBSD will work the same way
> on your VPS2. (It is more difficult on VPS1, because of the "virtual"
> environment ...)
>
> We continue to survey the e-mail landscape to look for promising
> technologies. Scott and friends have already provided vinstalls for
> things like procmail, spamassassin and (on VPS2--so far) clamav. As new
> technologies are agreed upon (something that is definitely *not* the case
> with SPF) and become stable (also not the case with SPF--yet?), I hope
> Verio will step up and provide instructions or vinstalls.
>
> --
> Weldon Whipple
> Software Engineer (sendmail and other things)
> wwhipple@xxxxxxxxx
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