Re: mail/py-authres, mail/py-spf, mail/py-policyd-spf - Remove?

On 2021-05-26 3:02 a.m., Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> On 5/26/21 4:59 AM, J Doe wrote:
>> On 2021-05-25 10:44 p.m., Daniel Jakots wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:00:07 +0000, Stuart Henderson
>>> <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2019/11/26 19:08, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
>>>>> These 3 are python2-only, and the only consumers are in a chain from
>>>>> one to the next.  (py-policyd-spf needs py-spf which needs
>>>>> py-authres).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is anyone using these?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any objections to removing them?
>>>>>
>>>>> --Kurt
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't use them (I don't think SPF is really useful) but
>>>> py-policyd-spf is the main recommended "standalone" implementation of
>>>> SPF for Postfix (as opposed to being part of a much more complex
>>>> system like rspamd). So if anybody is using them there's not much
>>>> alternative (there is a similarly named perl program but it's not
>>>> very good).
>>>>
>>>
>>> In 2017 Giovanni (added in Cc:) sent a wip diff for mail/py-policyd-spf.
>>> This never went in and then in January 2019 he imported
>>> mail/postfix-policyd-spf-perl. Is that the perl program you had in mind
>>> Stuart?
>>>
>>> I assume since Giovanni imported the perl thing, he doesn't use the
>>> python one anymore.
>>>
>>> Given there's been a WIP diff to update py-policyd-spf since 2017 and
>>> it never went in, it seems there's not much interest for it. The
>>> proposal from kmos to remove it didn't seem to have shocked anyone into
>>> maintaining it either.
>>>
>>> What do you think about the situation Giovanni?
>>>
>>> (I looked at it because I recently added spf support to my postfix
>>> setup, and I did it through postfix-policyd-spf-perl).
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does the postfix-policyd-spf-perl version provide identical functionality to the Python one ?
>>
> No,
> the Python version can be configured with several options, the Perl one can just accept/reject/tempfail.
> Last commit of the Perl code is from 3 years ago, I do not think anyone will improve that code.
>
> Giovanni

Hi Giovanni,

Thanks for your reply. Ok, that's fine - I don't do anything
sophisticated with my Linux e-mail servers with the Python
implementation, so if the Perl one for OpenBSD takes care of the basics,
that's good for me - I'm migrating some e-mail servers to OpenBSD 6.9.

- J