Bug 162336 - RFE: add libspf package to allow milter-greylist utilize SPF
Summary: RFE: add libspf package to allow milter-greylist utilize SPF
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: milter-greylist
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Enrico Scholz
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.libspf.org/
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-02 22:32 UTC by Milan Kerslager
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-03 08:26:26 UTC
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Description Milan Kerslager 2005-07-02 22:32:01 UTC
As SPF is almost well known anti-spam feature honored by many sites, please
include libspf package to the Fedora-Extras and rebuild milter-greylist package
with SPF support. Working packages for RHEL3 and RHEL4 are in my repository, see:

ftp://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/users/Milan.Kerslager/RHEL-3/testing.milter-greylist/
ftp://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/users/Milan.Kerslager/RHEL-4/testing.milter-greylist/

They will be moved to the stable directory soon:

ftp://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/users/Milan.Kerslager/RHEL-{3,4}/stable

See URL above for libspf homepage.

Comment 1 Enrico Scholz 2005-07-03 08:26:26 UTC
I tried libspf and found out that it has a bad code quality. It contains code like

|      if (rr_data == NULL)
|      {
|        rr_data = xmalloc(substr_len + 2);
|      }
|      else
|      {
|        rr_data = xrealloc(rr_data, (i + substr_len + 2));
|      }
|      strncat(rr_data, (char *)rd_ptr, substr_len);

at several places and that is really nothing which should touch my or somebody
else's mails.  There were memleaks also, but I can not remember the details and
can not find the libspf forum anymore where I posted my bugreports.

So I will not fix that, unless:

* somebody else packages libspf and proofs that he fixed all issues
* somebody else packages an alternative spf implementation



Comment 2 Milan Kerslager 2005-07-03 17:23:53 UTC
This seems to be a good reason to not to use SPF. Thank you for pointing out.

The second reason is that a lot of spam went through milter here because
spamming relays are using MailFrom from random domains with globally enabled SPF
records. So the spams are going through milter-graylist with no problem...


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