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OpenSMTPD reporting update

9 November 2018·1267 words·6 mins

TL;DR: The reporting mechanism has been described shortly in my previous article about both reporting and filters. Let's focus a bit more on the reporting bits this time.

OpenSMTPD released and upcoming filters preview

3 November 2018·2253 words·11 mins

TL;DR: Filters have been a (the most ?) long awaited feature in OpenSMTPD. I finally committed most of the filters code to OpenBSD. There is still a bit of work required but the trickiest parts are done.

switching to OpenSMTPD new config

21 May 2018·1765 words·9 mins

TL;DR: Switching to new config is not too hard and can be done in minutes. The new config is also a new queue that is not backwards compatible.

OpenSMTPD new config

30 April 2018·1513 words·8 mins

TL;DR: OpenBSD #p2k18 hackathon took place at Epitech in Nantes. I was organizing the hackathon but managed to make progress on OpenSMTPD. As mentionned at EuroBSDCon the one-line per rule config format was a design error.

Install OpenBSD on dedibox with full-disk encryption

29 January 2018·2308 words·11 mins

TL;DR: I run several "dedibox" servers at online.net, all powered by OpenBSD. OpenBSD is not officially supported so you have to work-around. Running full-disk encrypted OpenBSD there is a piece of cake.

News from the front !

8 January 2018·269 words·2 mins

TL;DR: Came very close to a burn out late 2016, had to quit former employer. Started working at another company early 2017. Became a student again, currently halfway through second year in psychology.

OpenSMTPD 6.0.0 is released !

12 September 2016·1404 words·7 mins

TL;DR: We just released OpenSMTPD 6.0.0 and it's quite different from former releases. Turns out most of the changes are not visible. A featureless release # I managed to wrap the 6.

Home, sweet home

22 December 2015·1249 words·6 mins

TL;DR: OpenSMTPD on github no longer diverges from OpenBSD. Since last episode # Sometime this year, we released OpenSMTPD 5.7.1 which was the first version that shipped with the long-awaited experimental filters support.

The state of filters

12 December 2014·3214 words·16 mins

TL;DR: yeeeees, filters are coming. don't believe us ? here's an example. be patient. On my death bed # On my death bed, when my life flashes before my eyes and I start recalling what people have told me during my (hopefully long) lifetime, these sentences will single out:

Some OpenSMTPD overview, part 3

10 December 2014·2351 words·12 mins

EHLO, This is the third post of a series about OpenSMTPD improvements that have taken place since this summer. Content altering # For a long time, we have developed OpenSMTPD with a strict rule that the daemon should not alter DATA (as in the DATA SMTP phase) in any way.

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