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Seth Goodman wrote:
Be aware that under Debian, where Exim is the default MTA, the
maintainers have packaged a special version of Exim compiled without SPF
support. Their docs state that they did this to avoid encouraging the
use of SPF, which they do not like.
I reviewed the exim4 source package, and as far as I could see, this is NOT
true for the current packages. The only real problem seems to be that
they don't use Exim 4's built-in SPF support based on libspf2 but use
libmail-spf-query-perl's `spfquery` instead (because they didn't want to
introduce another dependency on a natively compiled library and because
the co-maintainer responsible for the SPF support was more experienced and
comfortable with just using spfquery).
Are my observations correct?
Anyone is free to recompile Exim from source under Debian. IMHO,
most people won't bother,
Probably true.
and in fact they will see a disparaging note in the docs about SPF.
Not true, as far as I can see.
References:
1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290464#msg71
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