Re: spfd vs postfix

Eddy Beliveau wrote:
> I'm using postfix 2.2.3
> with perl-Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1-1
> and spfd (# $Id: spfd 141 2006-02-07 00:04:51Z julian $)
>
> Then I did the following
>
> $ echo  /usr/bin/spfd  --set-user nobody  --set-group nobody | at now
> $ ps -ef  | grep spfd
> nobody     20791 20790  0 14:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/spfd
> listening on TCP port 5970
>
> [...]
>
> $ tail  /var/log/messages
> Mar 15 14:52:49 smtpext1 postfix/smtpd[12501]: warning: missing
> attribute action in input from 127.0.0.1:5970
> Mar 15 14:52:49 smtpext1 postfix/smtpd[12501]: warning: problem talking
> to server 127.0.0.1:5970: Success
>
> Did I miss something ?

First, this question is more appropriate for spf-help, not for srs-discuss 
(or spf-discuss, for that matter).

Yes, you missed something.  You should not be using spfd as the Postfix 
policy daemon, but examples/postfix-policyd-spf instead.  spfd is not what 
you think it is.