scott at kitterman
Mar 13, 2007, 10:49 AM
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On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:40, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue30
> >
> > It's down in the "Changes In Feisty" section (Feisty Fawn is the code
> > name for the next Ubuntu release):
> >
> > Feisty includes a number of changes to provide SPF (Sender Policy
> > Framework) checking with Postfix. SPF is the most deployed e-mail domain
> > forgery protection technology today and was codified by the IETF in RFC
> > 4408. See http://www.openspf.org/ for more information. Feisty will be
> > the first Linux distribution to include everything needed to do RFC 4408
> > compliant SPF checking. The Python SPF library has been updated to the
> > latest release (python-spf 2.0.3). A companion Postfix policy server
> > (python-policyd-spf) is also included for a pure Python approach. There
> > is also a new Perl SPF library (libmail-spf-perl) with a companion
> > Postfix policy server (postfix-policyd-spf-perl).
>
> That is great, but I do not think they were the first. SuSE/OpenSUSE has
> had it for a while. They currently have it available via YaST2 for SUSE
> 10.0, 10.1, and OpenSUSE 10.2. It is in the download repo and available
> via ftp. I did get them to update to the latest and greatest. Thanks to
> the Build Service. To Look it is in Server:Mail.
So packages you did get released to all the opensuse 10.x versions
immediately?
I didn't know that. That's great.
In my defence, at the time I wrote that your stuff wasn't in opensuse yet, so
you pulled ahead.
Thanks again for your work on that.
Scott K
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