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Re: Software is Buggy and Immature!

2004-06-29 07:41:33
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:56:51AM -0700, David Lawless wrote:
| Ok.  I finally got it working.  Really though, what a horrific pain!

Thank you for the many comments and patches.  As you
observed, a lot of the SPF code you worked with is
early-adopter stage.  We are working to make it acceptable
to the early majority: you should be able to just download
an RPM with SPF and SRS and whatnot all bundled in.  Coding
is relatively easy; getting distribution maintainers to
change packages is harder.  That should be done by the end
of July.

| Second, I spent endless hours figuring out how to download and 
| install Perl modules, and constantly hitting undocumented
| dependencies.

Did you use the CPAN shell?  All the dependencies are
defined inside Makefile.PL and the CPAN shell will
automatically install them for you.

| Fourth I had to make this bug-fix to 'Query.pm' so that it will 
| ignore non-SPF TXT records and execute 'fallback' correctly:

Can you give me an example domain?  Query.pm already ignores
non-SPF TXT records.  What version of Mail::SPF::Query are
you using?

      # squish multiline responses into one first.
      foreach (@txt) {
        s/^"(.*)"$/$1/;
        s/^\s+//;
        s/\s+$//;

        if (/^v=spf1(\s.*|)$/i) {
          $txt .= $1;
        }
      }


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