[fetchmail]Does SPF break fetchmail?

[Rob MacGregor]

On 08/07/05, Neil Harkins <nharkins@well.com> wrote:
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> Hi. I used fetchmail for a few projects over the past 10 years,
> and was curious how it deals with SPF (Sender Policy Framework,
> http://spf.pobox.com).

Given that it pre-dates it, I'd say not at all :-)
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> I see in the fetchmail 5.0 feature list that:
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>  * Fetchmail can be told to fall back to delivering
>    via local sendmail if it can't open port 25.
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> Is there any way to make that the primary behavior
> instead of just a "fall-back"?

Why not just configure your install of fetchmail to deliver that way?=20
Surely that's easier than breaking everybody elses install :-)
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> Then again, if the MTA handled piped mail similarly to mail
> received over port 25, by inserting the machine's default ip
> address, it still wouldn't work. Not sure if the MTAs do
> that or not...
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> Anyway, any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated!

Adding to what others have said, you may want to configure your system
such that connections on the loopback interface are exempt from SPF
checks.  That should solve the problem.

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he=20
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche