Re: Case sensitivity of SPF results in SPF Received

"Scott Kitterman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
>> The ABNF for Received SPF shows the results with an initial capital
>> letter:
>>
>> http://www.openspf.org/RFC_4408#header-field
>>
>> result           = "Pass" / "Fail" / "SoftFail" / "Neutral" /
>>                    "None" / "TempError" / "PermError"
>>
>> Is that case sensitive?  Pyspf currently returns all lower case and I'm
>> wondering if that's a bug?
>
> The rfc2822 reference for header fields says it is *not* case sensitive.
> The capitalization for result in rfc4408 should be taken as a suggestion.
> The CVS version of pyspf uses camel case as suggested by the SPF spec.

Some of the applications that use the pyspf library expect lower case, so
any changes will need to be handled with care.

I am curious if the Spamassassin 3.2 Received SPF header processing is
case insensitive?  That's the only automated consumer of the header that
I'm aware of.

Scott K

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