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TL;DR: - le greylisting est une bonne idée - ce n'est pas très pratique aujourd'hui - beaucoup de gens se passent du greylisting ou trouvent des contournements - le SPF-aware greylisting rend le greylisting utilisable à nouveau Merci à mes sponsors ! Un énorme merci aux gens qui me sponsorisent sur patreon ou github, le temps consacré à la rédaction et traduction de cet article a été rendu possible par mon sponsorat. [Read More]

TL;DR: - wrote, reworked and translated multiple articles this month - got some goodies ready for my patrons - lots of work in OpenSMTPD's grammar, documentation and filters protocol Shout outs to my sponsors ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. If you like my work, you can join my sponsors or share my reports and articles to help me find more people willing to sponsor me ! [Read More]

TL;DR: - Pas de résumé, j'ai passé des heures à traduire, vous allez passer des minutes à lire ;) - OK… J'ai expliqué avec BIEN TROP DE DÉTAILS comment mettre en palce un serveur de mail Merci à mes sponsors ! Un énorme merci aux gens qui me sponsorisent sur patreon ou github, le temps consacré à la rédaction et traduction de cet article a été rendu possible par mon sponsorat. [Read More]

TL;DR: - SMTP est la méthode dont les ordinateurs échangent des e-mails - il s'agit d'un protocole décentralisé, ce qui signifie que CHACUN peut héberger un nœud et être indépendant - il est en train d'être centralisé dans des sociétés qui ont un passif d'abus - il est en train d'être centralisé dans un pays qui a un passif d'abus Où est-ce que j’ai déjà lu ça ? En Août, j’ai publié un petit article intitulé “You should not run your mail server because mail is hard” (“Vous ne devriez pas héberger votre serveur de mail parce que c’est dur”) qui était, en gros, mon opinion sur les différentes raisons qui poussent les gens à décourager l’hébergement de mails. [Read More]

TL;DR: - SMTP is the way computers exchange e-mails - it is a decentralised protocol meaning that ANYONE can run a node and be independant - it is being centralised at companies that have a history of abuse - it is being centralised in a country that has a history of abuse Where did you read this already ? In August, I published a small article titled “You should not run your mail server because mail is hard” which was basically my opinion on why people keep saying it is hard to run a mail server. [Read More]

TL;DR: - greylisting is a sound idea - yet it is not really practical today - people tend to disable it or find work-arounds - SPF-aware greylisting makes greylisting usable again Shout outs to my sponsors ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. SMTP failures in a nutshell SMTP is a fail-safe protocol which attempts very hard to ensure that messages do not get lost once they are in transit. [Read More]

TL;DR: - our CI was improved - a new OpenSMTPD release, 6.6.1p1 took place to deal with portable issues - multiple portability issues were adressed - new table API in the works - filter-rspamd and filter-senderscore were improved - filter-greylist proof-of-concept published - wrote 2 chapters for my book Shout outs to my sponsors ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. [Read More]

TL;DR: - yay, surprise emergency hand surgery... - OpenSMTPD 6.6.0 was tagged and released, including portable version - Merged contributions to fix filter-rspamd bug with DKIM - Work resumed on 6.7.0 feature - An OpenSMTPD book is in the works Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. [Read More]

TL;DR: - I started writing this post a week ago but got interrupted by a baby, Jules - Spent MANY hours on writing OpenSMTPD-related articles - Enabled continuous integration in the OpenSMTPD portable repository - Managed to get rid of all the blocking issues for OpenSMTPD 6.6.0 release - Added some features and fixed a crash in filter-rspamd Shout outs to my patrons ! As usual, a huge thanks goes to the people sponsoring me on patreon or github, the work in this post was made possible by my sponsorship. [Read More]

TL;DR: - NO TL;DR: this time, I spent hours writing, you should spend minutes reading. - OK... I explain in WAY TOO MUCH details how to setup a mail server EDIT (2019-10-26) OpenSMTPD 6.6.0 was released today, the article was updated to reflect that it applies to the current release and no longer a development version. EDIT (2019-12-15) I have refactored the article to remove the political aspect behind self-hosting, which is now a standalone article, as well as a blurb on reputation since this will become part of a serie of articles. [Read More]