On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:12:31AM -0500, Paul Fisher wrote:
| I'm currently working on a small SPF patch/client for Exim. I have a
| few questions regarding the test suite (1.991) and RFC Draft 02.9.5
| that have been bugging me.
|
| 1. Tests #89 - #96 / RFC Draft Appendix A
|
| The TXT record for 70.spf1-test.mailzone.com is "v=spf1
| exists:%{lr+=}.lp._spf.spf1-test.mailzone.com -all". Appendix A lists
| valid macro delimiters -- the equal sign is not included. Was this an
| accidental omission in the RFC Draft, or should tests #89 through #96
| return "unknown" (parse error)?
delim = '.' | '-' | '+' | ',' | '|' | '_'
I think that's actually a little too specific; I would be okay with any
non-ALPHA char. What do people think?
It's intended to support the newfangled username+something@domain
convention, where you can tag +something on the end of your username.
Some people use +, others use -, so we shouldn't be too strict here.
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| I'm currently working on a small SPF patch/client for Exim. I have a
| few questions regarding the test suite (1.991) and RFC Draft 02.9.5
| that have been bugging me.
|
| 1. Tests #89 - #96 / RFC Draft Appendix A
|
| The TXT record for 70.spf1-test.mailzone.com is "v=spf1
| exists:%{lr+=}.lp._spf.spf1-test.mailzone.com -all". Appendix A lists
| valid macro delimiters -- the equal sign is not included. Was this an
| accidental omission in the RFC Draft, or should tests #89 through #96
| return "unknown" (parse error)?
delim = '.' | '-' | '+' | ',' | '|' | '_'
I think that's actually a little too specific; I would be okay with any
non-ALPHA char. What do people think?
It's intended to support the newfangled username+something@domain
convention, where you can tag +something on the end of your username.
Some people use +, others use -, so we shouldn't be too strict here.
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