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diff --git a/mail/sid-milter/DESCR b/mail/sid-milter/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dbced81595c --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/sid-milter/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The sid-milter package is an open source implementation of the Sender-ID and +SPF sender authentication systems. + +Sender-ID and SPF have both been published by the IETF (RFC4406 and RFC4408, +respectively) as experimental proposals. + +This package consists of a library that implements the record parsers needed +to provide the authentication service, and a milter-based filter application +that can plug in to the sendmail MTA to provide that service to sufficiently +recent sendmail and postfix MTAs. + +An optional asynchronous resolver library is also provided to work around +limitations of the basic BIND resolver which comes installed on most +systems. |