Re: Re: Case-sensitive status

On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 05:51:51 PM Julian Mehnle wrote:
> Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > > From my experience I strongly doubt any significant software packages
> > > consuming SPF result codes do so in a case-sensitive manner, but of
> > > course that's only a gut feeling.
> > 
> > Anybody from SA, or someone familiar with its code, on the list that
> > can confirm this?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the SpamAssassin code, but I looked anyway:
> 
>  
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plug
> in/SPF.pm?view=markup#l336
> 
> See the //i regexp option in line 355?  It matches case-insensitively.
> 
> That is also the only file in the SA code base (as of 3.3.2) consuming
> Received-SPF headers.

I checked pypolicyd-spf, which is the Postfix policy server for SPF I developed 
and it does not make any assumptions about the case of the result code (it 
downcases and then sets appropriate case to give a consistent presentation in 
SPF Received headers, but that would be trivial to change).

I think it should be fine.

Scott K