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2021

April 2021: OpenSMTPD, plakar, ipcmsg, privsep and a small hypnosis talk
·2666 words·13 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I worked on OpenSMTPD-portable, did a lot of plakar, a lot of Go and gave a technical talk on hypnosis. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax.
March 2021: backups with Plakar
·4260 words·20 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology plakar backups
TL;DR: I wrote a backup utility called plakar. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now !)
February 2021: nooSMTPD libtls-conversion, ciphers, curves and protocols
·935 words·5 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I converted nooSMTPD to libtls and implemented SMTP ciphers, curves and protocols selection. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe !
January 2021: OpenSMTPD libtls conversion and UNIX-domain sockets support, nooSMTPD
·2143 words·11 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: I do LoFi now, eric@ revived some libtls conversion work I did a while back, I worked on UNIX-domain sockets support in OpenSMTPD, a few words about nooSMTPD Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax.

2020

Writing a custom Mail Delivery Agent
·1955 words·10 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: In this article, I explain what is an MDA and how to write a custom one from scratch using only shell scripting. What is a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) ?
December 2020: OpenSMTPD 6.8.0p1 released, fixed several bugs, proposed several diffs, book is on Github
·2702 words·13 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: Crafted the OpenSMTPD 6.8.0p1 release Fixed several bugs in the way Proposed a few OpenSMTPD improvements to OpenBSD Working on my OpenSMTPD book Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax.
November 2020: I wasn't slacking but no opensource work
·1207 words·6 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: Haven’t posted since July but I wasn’t slacking, got temporarily context-switched out of opensource stuff. I tanked a year in work psychology # As some of you know, I study work psychology and have been attending evening classes for the last four years, sometimes up to 9 hours / week and more often between 3 and 6 hours / week.
July 2020: webmail, custom MDA and python framework work
·1353 words·7 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: worked on my webmail, on a custom MDA and on a python framework for API development. Worked on my webmail # Again, I’d like to emphasize that this is something that’s going to span over many months so… don’t hold your breath.
June 2020: poolp.org, folder pinning and webmail work
·1698 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: Reworked my infrastructure at poolp.org, implemented folder pinning, worked on my webmail. poolp.org infrastructure rework # I decided to move my servers from online.
May 2020: OpenSMTPD 6.7.1p1 release, table-procexec and many PoCs
·2983 words·15 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
TL;DR: Worked on the OpenSMTPD 6.7 release; Did a lot of work on the new table API; Wrote several PoCs; WARNING: Examples of code and configuration that appear in this article are here to help illustrate and explain development stages of my work.
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