RaSPF, my at­tempt­ed port of PySPF to C is now at a very spe­cial point in its life:

The pro­vid­ed CLI ap­pli­ca­tion can check SPF records and tell you what you should do with them!

Here's an ex­am­ple:

[ralsina@monty build]$ ./raspfquery --ip=192.0.2.1 --sender=03.spf1-test.mailzone.com --helo=03.spf1-test.mailzone.com
Checking SPF with:

sender: 03.spf1-test.mailzone.com
helo:   03.spf1-test.mailzone.com
ip:     192.0.2.1


response:       softfail
code:           250
explanation:    domain owner discourages use of this host

Is that cor­rec­t? Ap­par­ent­ly yes!

[ralsina@monty pyspf-2.0.2]$ python spf.py 192.0.2.1 03.spf1-test.mailzone.com 03.spf1-test.mailzone.com
('softfail', 250, 'domain owner discourages use of this host')

Is it use­ful? Sure­ly you jest!

There are still the fol­low­ing prob­lem­s:

• The mem­o­ry man­age­­ment is un­ex­is­­tant

• I need to hack a way to run the of­­fi­­cial SPF test suite so I can see how well it works and that it works ex­ac­t­­ly as PySPF

• It prob­a­bly will seg­­fault on many places

• I am chang­ing the er­ror han­dling to be ex­­cep­­tion-based, thanks to EX­CC

• The IPv6 sup­­port is be­tween iffy and not there

• There is no sup­­port for SPF (type 99) DNS record­s, on­­ly TXT records (need to hack the udns li­brary)

But re­al­ly, this should be about 60% of the work, and it does work for some cas­es, which is more than I re­al­ly ex­pect­ed at the be­gin­ning.

Here's the whole source code of the sam­ple ap­pli­ca­tion (ex­cept for CLI op­tion pro­cess­ing):

spf_init();
spf_response r=spf_check(ip,sender,helo,0,0);
printf ("\nresponse:\t%s\ncode:\t\t%d\nexplanation:\t\t%s\n",
        r.response,r.code,r.explanation);