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I've known for some time as a working group participant of the Canadian Task Force on Spam, and now what I wish to announce has finally its self been publicly announced.
On May 11, 2004 the Government of Canada announced the creation of a
joint government / private sector task force to combat spam. This task
force has facilitated the collaboration between the Government of
Canada, industry, and consumer groups. The first task was to supply the
Canadian Government with advice on how to proceed. This report was
ratified at the end of 2004 and submitted to the Honourable David L.
Emerson, Minister of Industry.
Contained within this report is a list of "Best Practices" for ISPs and
the relevant industry to consider. The number one recommendation by
this Task Force? Why, PUBLISH SPF RECORDS of course! You can read the
full paper here in PDF format or in HTML format. You can read just the list of recommendations by clicking here.
Woot! |
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| libSPF is now finally in the Gentoo portage tree! Thanks to Pfiefer from the Gentoo team for taking the time to do this! |
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libspf-1.0.0-p3 is now available for download.
It fixes two important things from a correctness standpoint, which will
impact in particular those who were employing complex SPF queries.
Firstly a proper fix for the %{o} macro has been put into place (thank
you Michael Elliott for the patch). Secondly some other behaviour
Michael was noticing led me to discover a bug with the exists mechanism
that would only be problematic if you were doing and 'exists' within an
'include' and your 'exists' happened to be non-existent. A full
explanation is in the changelog.
In other news my UPS batteries
have died from my APC SmartUPS 1400. If anyone can donate new
battieries it would be appreciated!
Almost there!
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libspf-1.0.0-p2 is now available for download.
It fixes autoconf issues with OpenBSD, FreeBSD and GCC 2.95.x and
includes a proper fix for the mail from: quick fix I put into p1 to
stop the 1 byte memory leak that was happening occaisonally.
I'm
working on p3 right now and hope to actually get it out before I go to
bed, so if you have feed back and haven't already sent it in, please
don't hesitate to fire something off now :-) |
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| I
have received lots of great feedback, more than I anticipated so the
release planned for Tuesday I will merge with Wednesdays and will
release this evening. |
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It
is my intent to release libSPF 1.0.0 final some time during this week
depending on what feedback I get from the various contributors and
users. Each day I will be putting up a tarball build release starting
with pre-1. Each day until I'm happy I will post a new "pre-x" release.
You can grab the pre-1 release from here or from the files
section. Pre-1 is running very well with almost all issues that have
been submitted over the weekend being autoconf ones. Pre-1 contains
important fixes and its the most stable release that has been made
available to date outside of the aforementioned AutoTools problems. |
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| I've
moved libspf.org (website) to a temporary 1.5Mbit connection and
additionally the DNS has also moved. This has resulted in some slow
downs and a literal outage for some. Sorry for the inconvenience,
things will slowly return to normal over the weekend. Hopefully none of
you notice this until Monday since you are enjoying a nice holiday
weekend! |
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| CVS is temporarily not available. You can grab a tarball of the most recent ch
eckout here. Sorry for the inconvenience I are in the m
iddle of moving some machines around. If you can provide rsync+httpd+perl+cvsd and are willing to aide in provid
ing a real-time mirror of this sight please drop myself an e-mail. |
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| Although
I originally intentionally used 'res_search' instead of 'res_query'
throughout the DNS functionality within libSPF it has been brought to
my attention that this is in violation of RFC2821 and in view of this
changes necessary to facilitate adhearance to the RFC2821 guidelines
have been made and are available in CVS. Full details of why this is so
can be found on the Debian bug trackinglist.
Since I happen to make use of the functionality afforded through the
use of 'res_search' (name queries will follow 'default' and 'search'
rules found in resolv.conf) I've decided to leave the functionality in,
which can be enabled through the AutoConf flag '--enable-res-search'.
Thanks to Marc Lehman for his submission. |
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I've
just checked in a commit which basically equates to a one byte change
but makes a world of difference for users of Outhouse Express when
passing through a qmail server and using libSPF. The previously applied
change to the qmail patch was supposed to be '\n' instead it was placed
as '\r\n' which was being added after the 'Received-SPF:' header. It
hasn't caused problems with any MUA's I or others I know use, but
apparently it causes messages to only be displayed up to just before
the message body making the mail appear empty (although upon viewing
the message source you'll find its all there). Sorry for the
inconvenience, but somehow I just can't find the time to fit Outhouse
Express into my testing setup.
There will be at least one more commit to CVS to complete the RC6
release and as previously indicated then binaries will be made
available. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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A
checkin of code I've just done fixes a macro bug thats been bothering
some of you and includes a couple other fixes submitted by Michael
Elliot whom I'd like to thank again for his diligence in getting ahold
of me and the exceptional content of his bug submissions that yielded a
quick turn around on fixes. Binary and source tarballs will be up later
today as RC6 final.
Sorry for the lack of updates, I left my job and went out of the Frying
Pan and into the Furnance as regards busy work schedules so to speak.
I'll be slowly more and more available over the next couple weeks. Hope
everyone is having a good year so far, here we are already into the
second month! |
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