enabling SPF

[erik@delphi]

hi Folks,

I'm trying to enable SPF checks.The docs tells me i need this this acl and the perl module Mail::SPF::Query so

/scripts/perlinstaller Mail::SPF::Query

spfd (the daemon) must run as the same user as exim runs so i issue this command

spfd --socket=/tmp/spfd --socket-user=47 --socket-group=12

47 => mailnull
12 => mail

but it looks like my system hangs or something i have to hit ctrl + c in putty or i can't continue anything else

spfd (PID 13511): Listening on UNIX socket '/tmp/spfd'.

This is not normal what can i do about it ?

[erik@delphi]

bump ......

[valkira]

It's a good thing to try, but I'm not sure that many servers support this (yet)

And you're wrong, It doesn't hang, check your ps list:

{dns} root #1 23:54 [/etc]> ps auxxwwf | grep spfd
root 5104 0.0 0.0 5436 628 pts/3 S+ 23:55 0:00 | \_ grep spfd
root 4337 0.1 0.3 12868 6532 pts/5 S+ 23:53 0:00 \_ spfd listening at UNIX socket /tmp/spfd

But what to now - that I don't know

EDIT:But If this is the hoped result:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,HTML_MESSAGE,
	MIME_HTML_MOSTLY,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.2.0

Then: yes, it works, but you shoud start this command at startup, as a cron job or something like that, not from the shell

[erik@delphi]

It's a good thing to try, but I'm not sure that many servers support this (yet)

And you're wrong, It doesn't hang, check your ps list:

{dns} root #1 23:54 [/etc]> ps auxxwwf | grep spfd
root 5104 0.0 0.0 5436 628 pts/3 S+ 23:55 0:00 | \_ grep spfd
root 4337 0.1 0.3 12868 6532 pts/5 S+ 23:53 0:00 \_ spfd listening at UNIX socket /tmp/spfd

But what to now - that I don't know

EDIT:But If this is the hoped result:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,HTML_MESSAGE,
	MIME_HTML_MOSTLY,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.2.0

Then: yes, it works, but you shoud start this command at startup, as a cron job or something like that, not from the shell

oooh the instruction do not tell you you need to start it from cron i hate it when people are to lazy to write proper docs

[valkira]

I see now that I was very wrong in my last post, the SPF_PASS in the mail header comes from SpamAssassin because my domain has SPF record, It's not related to this so you can completely ignore my post.

Maybe someone else will be smarter

[AlexV.]

What version of Exim are you running? If you could provide the exact RPM that would be awesome.

SPF is Experimental on Exim hence not distributed on all rpms.

[erik@delphi]

What version of Exim are you running? If you could provide the exact RPM that would be awesome.

SPF is Experimental on Exim hence not distributed on all rpms.

rpm -q exim

exim-4.66-3_cpanel_maildir

i'm on Redhat Enterprise Linux ES (4) if that's of any help

[fenixer]

Helo!

Could you finally use SPF filtering at Exim??
Is stable? Can you give some reports?