Mailing List Archive: More questions on tests ...

I noticed that Wayne's tests in tests.txt contain some test parameters that I don't fully
understand the ramifications of, can someone please enlighten me a little.

The 2 in question are the -local and -rcpt-to parameters to the spfquery program. I assume
that the -local is used to specify a local policy, but what is the precence of this? Does
it override the DNS policy, is it an adjunct to, or is it only used under fail/softfail
conditions?

The other is -rcpt-to, which the output from the tests seems to indicate this would override
the responsible-sender algorithm and simulate multiple messages. Again, some help would be
great.

Sorry if these questions have already been asked and answered.

-Gary Levell
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In <F8613B5F9C388242BDABF11AF6ED123F04FB15@MAIL1.dcsl.local> "Gary Levell" <gary@exclaimer.net> writes:

> I noticed that Wayne's tests in tests.txt contain some test
> parameters that I don't fully understand the ramifications of, can
> someone please enlighten me a little.

I'll give it a try!

> The 2 in question are the -local and -rcpt-to parameters to the
> spfquery program. I assume that the -local is used to specify a
> local policy, but what is the precence of this? Does it override the
> DNS policy, is it an adjunct to, or is it only used under
> fail/softfail conditions?

Both of these options are part of the semi-standard SPF API rather
than the SPF spec. (Yes, Meng, I *still* haven't broken out the spec
tests from the API tests. Soon! :-)

You are not required to implement either of these, although it
probably would be a really good idea if you did.

The documentation on these is really poor. The best documentation
that I know of is in the spf.h file of libspf-alt. See the
"documentation" section in http://libspf2.org/index.html

> Sorry if these questions have already been asked and answered.

Hey, it ain't your fault I haven't gotten around to documenting stuff
better. If the above pointers don't help enough, let me know and I'll
try to make things clearer.

For what it is worth, libspf-alt has been used as the basis for at
least one MS Exchange event since. Since it uses the BSD license, it
is available for use in commercial products without any fees, or
anything. There are already patches for using the Windows DNS API. I
should be able to make them available in at least a beta-test version
this week.

-wayne

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