Mail::SPF 2.006 -- A Perl implementation of the Sender Policy Framework
(C) 2005-2008 Julian Mehnle <julian@mehnle.net>
    2005      Shevek <cpan@anarres.org>
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF>
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Mail::SPF is an object-oriented Perl implementation of the Sender Policy
Framework (SPF) e-mail sender authentication system.

See <http://www.openspf.org> for more information about SPF.

This release of Mail::SPF fully conforms to RFC 4408 and passes the 2008.08
release of the official test-suite <http://www.openspf.org/Test_Suite>.

The Mail::SPF source package includes the following additional tools:

  * spfquery:  A command-line tool for performing SPF checks.
  * spfd:      A daemon for services that perform SPF checks frequently.

Sub-Classing
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You can easily sub-class Mail::SPF::Server and the Mail::SPF::Result class
collection in order to extend or modify their behavior.  See the upcoming
Mail::SPF::BlackMagic package for an example.

In your Mail::SPF::Server sub-class simply override the result_base_class()
constant, specifying your custom Mail::SPF::Result base sub-class.  Then have
your result base class specify its associated concrete sub-classes by
overriding Mail::SPF::Result's result_classes() constant.

For this to work, any code throwing Mail::SPF::Result(::*) objects directly
needs to stop doing so as of Mail::SPF 2.006 and use Mail::SPF::Server::
throw_result() instead.

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Please report bugs in Mail::SPF and its documentation to the CPAN bug tracker:
<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Mail-SPF>

License
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Mail::SPF is free software.  You may use, modify, and distribute it under the
terms of the BSD license.  See LICENSE for the BSD license text.

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