Re: libspf2 support
Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel |
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| Organization | Kitterman Technical Services |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 12:59, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:18:17AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > >What is the latest libspf2 release? Is it still being supported and/or > >developed? If not, what is my best alterative to work with Exim?? > > When I checked last (September 24th), a few patches were sent around > on this list, but there seemed to be no central maintenance any more, > since the last release (1.2.5, February 24th, 2005). > > We use libspf2 here, with a few local changes, too: > - portability > - DNS lookup limits adapted to RFC 4408 > - hooks for own DNS layer (more efficient than creating an SPF_server_t > with one of the default layers, destroying that and then substituting > an own DNS layer there) > - not using trusted-forwarder.org by default, from the beginning on > - fixed result code if mx/ptr limits are exceeded > - a few fixes of malloc/realloc/calloc error handling (not all errors > are handled well, as that would require significant changes on the > internal interfaces, so the library will abort on some out-of-memory > conditions! This is also the case for the official release code, > which also may abort with NULL pointer dereferences on OOM) Julian Mehnle and I recently got access to the libspf2 repository and with (some) help from the previous maintainers are going to work towards releasing a new version that brings together the known patches. The Debian package has also accumulated a number of patches: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libs/libspf2.html I'd be interested to hear from everyone who has patched libspf2. I'd like to get: 1. A copy of the patch 2. The problem the patch is meant so solve 3. Testing/production experience with the patch Scott K ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=6959932&id_secret=54207895-aae1e2 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com