Topic: SPF E-mail?

[arnoldob]

Has anyone tried to implement SPF (Sender Policy Framework) on SME qmail? I saw some interesting news stories about increasing support for this nascent standard to prevent the reception of e-mail with forged headers. Here's a few links about it:

http://news.google.com/news?q=spf+e-mail&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nn

http://spf.pobox.com/

http://www.libspf.org/

The last link has a download for qmail. Have any of our bleeding edge types tried this already? Did it work well? Any problems?

Thanks

[distracted]

The latest version of ASSP available at http://assp.sourceforge.net/ has SPF as an option. I have been using it on my small businesses mail server (processes about 800 to 1000 emails a day) running SME 6.0.1 for 10 days now with just a few hiccups. It works, but it does log more than a few Perl errors. I haven't had the time to look into it.

To install it I used the HowTo at http://www.sonoracomm.com/sonoracomm/pdf/ASSP_HOWTO.pdf and replaced it with the latest version. I then installed ClamAV to get the new AV function in ASSP running. I just followed the instructions in the README file that was included with the source. I know I've left something out, but I'll get a detailed HowTo posted as soon as I can retrace my steps and fix the logged errors.