[opendmarc-users] Feedback on Reported Issue

Scott Kitterman sklist at kitterman.com
Wed Apr 1 11:40:29 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, April 01, 2015 10:34:17 AM Steve Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Scott Kitterman <sklist at kitterman.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > Opendmarc has its own internal SPF checking code that is used when
> > compiled --
> > with-spf, but not linked against libspf2.  The internal code is by no
> > means a
> > complete implementation of the SPF spec.  My kvetching about that is (I
> > think)
> > why linking against libspf2 is an option.
> > 
> > It's not required to use libspf2 (btw, libspf is a completely separate
> > ancient, abandoned code base, so to be clear, it's libspf2 you want), but
> > I
> > certainly recommend it.  That's what I did in the Debian packages.
> 
> Thanks, Scott. I would gladly include it in the package, but libspf2 isn't
> currently available in the Fedora repos. In fact, it seems that the
> justification is that it's not needed since OpenDMARC does it internally
> (see comment #6):
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057874
> 
> Can you help me provide a compelling reason on that bug (even though it
> will be a necropost on my part) to convince them that it is worth including?

I gave it a shot.

Scott K


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