[opendmarc-users] OpenDMARC useless with Postfix

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Hi Murray, the biggest problem seems to be there is no good short clear 
> doku in how to setup opendmarc milter with postfix including most made 
> failures or known bugs. As reported the dmarc rfc is not easy reading 
> sometimes too.

I'm not at all familiar with postfix, since I grew up using sendmail.  I 
would be very happy to have improved postfix-specific documentation to 
include in the package that sn't already here.  Are you by any chance 
volunteering to write some or make a donation to support such work?  This 
is an open source package and not commercial code, as I'm sure you are 
aware.

As for the DMARC draft being hard to follow, a rather detailed revision of 
it is in progress (no changes to the technology details, just a serious 
"haircut" on the language).  It should appear soon, before it's published 
as an RFC.  Again, if you have specific suggestions to make, I'm all ears.

> The opendmarc milter seems to need other milters as "helpers" to work
> with postfix, this is "unusual", and it took me two days get this to
> know, i would expect doing every software its own complete job.

You're right, this is one place the documentation isn't clear.  Please 
open a ticket on SourceForge if you would like to see this improved; 
that's how I remember these things once the release cycle starts.

> I have no criticts about software/standards working as designed. also 
> bugs may happen, but there seems still work to do in documentation.

I'm happy to take your specific suggestions.

> I guess the intention of the subject "useless" was in waking up the list 
> for support.

Respectfully, it didn't get the kind of attention from me that I think 
you really want.  Calling the hard work of a small community "useless" is 
a lot more likely to make them angry than helpful.

-MSK