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An ANSI C Implementation of the Sender Policy Framework |
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Q. What is up with libspf2? |
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A. If I had a penny for every email received with this question I'd be |
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filthy stinking rich. Instead, i'm filthy stinking disgusted with the |
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absolute arrogance displayed by Wayne Schlitt and "Shevek" aka Ben |
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Mankin. Wayne through his own arrogance believes that his library |
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(originally entitled libspf-alt) is vastly superior to that of this |
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library that he deemed it appropriate to rename his library libspf2 |
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which causes a variety of problems. |
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1. Its confusing! Which library shall people use!? |
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Wayne hopes that people will do the natual thing and assume that |
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by the very nature of it having a higher number (2) then that of |
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libSPF they will use it. Their own website references libSPF |
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as 'An Old implementation." |
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2. It appears to supercede or deprecate this library which is MORE |
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MATURE and STABLE then libspf-alt/libspf2! |
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3. Its inconsiderate and WRONG. If you have a peek at the libs |
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available with any *nix you will see that libraries with the name |
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library2 eg: libxml2 are penned by the SAME author(s) and they do |
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indeed generally deprecate the previous library. Persons labeling |
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their project as such without the consent of the original author |
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are assholes. |
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4. September 2, 2004 - Another good reason, this will be the third |
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rewrite of an SPF implementation of Wayne origin. |
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http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/spf/devel/11120 |
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In summary the entire library has been effectively rewritten once |
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again. Amusingly enough its merely now attempting to do just |
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what this library has been doing from day one. |
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This is nasty disgusting political topic which I have tried to resolve |
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but have had no success. |
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More information about this can be found at http://moscow.6o4.ca/ |
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Q. Where are the patches against the MTAs? |
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A. See the patches directory. |
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Q. I/We/My company wants to pay you to help/integrate libspf/libsrs into our |
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MTA. Are you available? |
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A. Money is always great. Email jcouzens@codeshare.ca. |
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Q. I want to help, where do I apply? |
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A. E-Mail jcouzens@codeshare.ca. The most needed help is patches for MTA's. |
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Q. I have a patch against MTA X, what do I do? |
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A. Email jcouzens@codeshare.ca and arrange to communicate. |
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Q. I see debug code all over the place, but I can't get it working: |
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A. libspf-1_0_0/docs/API/debugging_libspf.pdf |
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Q. make test fails for me |
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A. Its hard coded to use /usr/bin/perl where most if not all BSD and Linux |
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implementations place the perl binary. The easiest way around this is |
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to symlink wherever you may have perl installed to this location. An example |
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of this would be: ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl |
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Q. I have some random question not answered here. |
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A. Eamil jcouzens@codeshare.ca. |
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Q. Great work, I want to show my appreciation, how can I? |
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A. I love books. Perhaps you could purchase something from my Amazon.com wishlist! |
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If you do, please notify me so I can remove an item, no need getting two of |
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anything :-) |
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http://libspf.org/wishlist.html |
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