Cool -- I took the first few steps (publishing SPF records for
rockclimbing.com, setting up policyd for Postfix 2.1) but this guide
will really help take the final step.  Thanks so much!

--tim

Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> FYI:
> Anyone interested in enabling  SPF (plus MS CALLER-ID if desired) for 
> their Postfix MTA / DbMail system?
> This is not intended as a recommendation but if you have considered 
> implementing the new SPF I have been running the Postfix SMTP policy 
> daemon with Postfix/DbMail with good result.
> 
> SPF is worth watching now as it is widely becoming the (open-source) 
> sender policy framework of choice over TEOS, CALLER-ID and many other 
> proposals.
> 
> SPF is an SMTP MTA policy daemon. No change to your DbMail installation 
> is indicated but SPF certainly is a plus for your DbMail system, 
> preventing 'junk' from entering your mail storage database.
> SPF relies on a DNS Zone TXT entry to indicate which MX servers are 
> allowed to handle mail for the zone and what zones if any it handles 
> mail for. Check your DNS. Soon everyone will be getting SPF bounces 
> until they correctly configure their DNS servers to indicate their 
> authorized MXs.
> Try this: http://spf.pobox.com/wizard.html?mydomain=<ENTER YOUR DOMAIN> )
> 
> Mail::SPF::Query for POSTFIX 2.1/2.2 can be implemented with:
> i) a simple PERL policy daemon;
> ii) 2 new PERL modules (and if your PERL needs it, a sprucing up of 
> NET:: modules) and
> iii) a master.cf/main.cf config change.
> 
> Mail::SPF::Query is at:
> (http://search.cpan.org/~freeside/Mail-SPF-Query-1.997/ )
> 
> (MS CALLER-ID) LMAP::CID2SPF Is at:
> http://www.baschny.de/spf/LMAP-CID2SPF-0.9.tar.gz
> 
> Postfix policy daemon is here:
> http://spf.pobox.com/postfix-policyd.txt
> 
> INSTALLATION:
> Please read Postfix's README_FILES/SMTPD_POLICY_README
> 
> MASTER.CF
>  policy  unix  -       n       n       -       -       spawn
>      user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd-policy.pl
> 
> MAIN.CF (note that order is critical)
>  smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
>    ...
>    reject_unknown_sender_domain,
>    reject_unauth_destination,
>    check_policy_service unix:private/policy,
>    ...
> 
> 
> LINKS: Postfix SMTP Policy Info
> http://www.ipnet6.org/postfix/spf/    -Postfix Patch home page
> http://spf.pobox.com/                          - SPF background
> http://www.libspf2.org/                      - LibSPF2 site
> http://www.trusted-forwarder.org/    - Global whitelist
> http://www.postfix.org/                      - Postfix home page
> 
> 
> I have no experience with these so I can't vouch for  SPF on  Sendmail, 
> Qmail, Exim but overall reports are fair to excellent.
> See: http://www.libsrs2.org/status.html  for Sendmail, Qmail, Exim -  
> SPF help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> best to all...
> Mike
> 
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