Agreed Koen -
I completely understand this as I have been unable to do anything for spf
recently myself due to other commitments. But what finances are required?
Would the council not be better spending time and energy in raising that
funding? Would there be enough support from people on these lists for
everyone to make a small contribution - either money or time - to help make
it happen.
I believe Mark has thrown down the gauntlet, and I am prepared to pick it up
insofar as I can. I would be happy to contribute financially and actually,
but my technical expertise limits me considerably. Maybe I could do another
fancy website to collect the funds? ;-)
Seriously though - - if just *one* distro had a supported package, I believe
the others would follow quickly, in order not to be left out. So who would
like to pick up the gauntlet and help do and pay for a package for
debian/postfix - - because I certainly would.....
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Slainte,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Koen Martens" <spf(_at_)metro(_dot_)cx>
To: <spf-help(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [spf-help] New member with one question :)
Hi John,
Even though we all love open source, this does not mean this stuff gets
done for free. We all have jobs and/or companies to maintain. Iirc, fund
raising was not much of a success, so what needs to happen at this point
i guess is that some companies stand up and say, 'we'll pay a couple of
our developers to make this happen' or maybe the major linux distro's
need to pick this up, or some company that has interests in reducing
forgery stands up and coughs up some dough.
Koen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:27:33PM +0100, jpinkerton wrote:
My honest opinion is that SPF is dying on it's feet because it is just
too
difficult and complex to set up supported milters. I run Debian and
postfix, but there is no supported debian/postfix package for spf which
I
could "apt-get".
If SPF is to remain alive, people with more technical knowledge than me
need
to write up *and* support packages/rpms/whatever so that the average
overworked sysadmin can install and configure the milters easily, and
not
have to wrangle with goodness knows what foibles of the current
offerings
and be driven to this list.
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