Bug 123234 - Add SPF support to sendmail
Summary: Add SPF support to sendmail
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sendmail
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact:
URL: http://spf.pobox.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-05-14 16:39 UTC by Stephen Lewis
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-03 11:41:54 UTC
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Description Stephen Lewis 2004-05-14 16:39:08 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Description of problem:
SPF permits MTAs to verify that the sending MTA is a permitted source
of mail for a given domain by checking dns txt entries.

SPF is gaining widespread adoption, including large ISPs.

For a system to fully participate, its MTA must be able to validate
SPF for received mail. Sendmail milters or patches are available to
support this.

I would like to see SPF support provided in RHEL (presumably by milter
until sendmail supports it natively)

see http://spf.pobox.com

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2004-11-03 11:41:54 UTC
SPF is patented, therefore there is no way to put it in.

Comment 2 Stephen Lewis 2004-11-03 17:39:52 UTC
I think you are mistaken - are you possibly thinking of the Microsoft 
Sender ID, which does have patent issues. I believe Sender Policy 
Framework (SPF) is open, and has now been adopted by the IETF.

see http://spf.pobox.com


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