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NAME

       spfd - simple forking daemon to provide SPF query services

VERSION

       2006-02-07

SYNOPSIS

       spfd --port port [--set-user uid|username] [--set-group gid|groupname]

       spfd --socket filename [--socket-user uid|username] [--socket-group gid|groupname] [--socket-perms octal-perms] [--set-user uid|username]
       [--set-group gid|groupname]

       spfd --help

DESCRIPTION

       spfd is a simple forking Sender Policy Framework (SPF) query proxy server.  spfd receives and answers SPF query requests on a TCP/IP or
       UNIX domain socket.

       The --port form listens on a TCP/IP socket on the specified port.  The default port is 5970.

       The --socket form listens on a UNIX domain socket that is created with the specified filename.  The socket can be assigned specific user
       and group ownership with the --socket-user and --socket-group options, and specific filesystem permissions with the --socket-perms option.

       Generally, spfd can be instructed with the --set-user and --set-group options to drop root privileges and change to another user and group
       before it starts listening for requests.

       The --help form prints usage information for spfd.

REQUEST

       A request consists of a series of lines delimited by x0A (LF) characters (or whatever your system considers a newline).  Each line must be
       of the form key=value, where the following keys are required:

       ip  The sender IP address.

       sender
	   The envelope sender address (from the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command).

       helo
	   The envelope sender hostname (from the SMTP "HELO" command).

RESPONSE

       spfd responds to query requests with similar series of lines of the form key=value.  The most important response keys are:

       result
	   The result of the SPF query:

	   pass      The specified IP address is an authorized mailer for the sender domain/address.

	   fail      The specified IP address is not an authorized mailer for the sender domain/address.

	   softfail  The specified IP address is not an authorized mailer for the sender domain/address, however the domain is still in the
		     process of transitioning to SPF.

	   neutral   The sender domain makes no assertion about the status of the IP address.

	   unknown   The sender domain has a syntax error in its SPF record.

	   error     A temporary DNS error occurred while resolving the sender policy.	Try again later.

	   none      There is no SPF record for the sender domain.

       smtp_comment
	   The text that should be included in the receiver's SMTP response.

       header_comment
	   The text that should be included as a comment in the message's "Received-SPF:" header.

       spf_record
	   The SPF record of the envelope sender domain.

       For the description of other response keys see Mail::SPF::Query.

       For more information on SPF see <http://www.openspf.org>.

EXAMPLE

       A running spfd could be tested using the "netcat" utility like this:

	   $ echo -e "ip=11.22.33.44
sender=user@pobox.com
helo=spammer.example.net
" | nc localhost 5970
	   result=neutral
	   smtp_comment=Please see http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=user%40pobox.com&ip=11.22.33.44&receiver=localhost
	   header_comment=localhost: 11.22.33.44 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of user@pobox.com
	   guess=neutral
	   smtp_guess=
	   header_guess=
	   guess_tf=neutral
	   smtp_tf=
	   header_tf=
	   spf_record=v=spf1 ?all

SEE ALSO

       Mail::SPF::Query, <http://www.openspf.org>

AUTHORS

       This version of spfd was written by Meng Weng Wong <mengwong+spf@pobox.com>.  Improved argument parsing was added by Julian Mehnle
       <julian@mehnle.net>.

       This man-page was written by Julian Mehnle <julian@mehnle.net>.

perl v5.12.5							    2006-02-06								   SPFD(1)