> On 6/24/2006 11:14 AM, Jim Hermann - UUN Hostmaster wrote: > > How do I debug the SPF Module during SA Operations? > > > > I have had another email marked as SPF_SOFTFAIL during the > first receipt and > > the From domain does not have a TXT SPF record. When I > isolated the message > > and ran it again, it was processed without any errors. > > > > I suspect that there is a problem with the timeout routines in > > Mail::SPF::Query and Mail::Spamassassin::Plugin::SPF. When > I increased the > > spf_timeout to 15, I did not have any false positives. > > 5 seconds is a long time to do the DNS queries for just an SPF check. > Any time the timeout is exceeded we explicitly treat this as > a SOFTFAIL. > Perhaps we'd be better off just having no result at all.
Considering that SOFTFAIL has a score, I recommend that a SPF timeout be something other than SOFTFAIL, probably the same as none. It needs it's own comment too. Users need to know what happened. Jim
