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.

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.

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.

TL;DR: Worked on my webmail; Did a bit of OpenSMTPD work; Webmail vs mutt # I started using console clients to read my mail back when I was a student in early 2000s, and I’ve been using mutt for as long as I can recall now.

TL;DR: - Qualys released an advisory for a bad, bad vulnerability - an MTA is a very bad software to have a vulnerability in - hole was plugged but that's not enough, similar bugs should be mitigated in the future - article discusses what could have prevented escalation despite the bug What happened ?

TL;DR: - brought back libasr to OpenSMTPD, it is no longer an external dependency - libtls-enabled OpenSMTPD is now a thing - documented filters and improved reporting No shiny feature this month, ungrateful work # OpenSMTPD has had quite a few features implemented since its latest major release.

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 WARNING:

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 ?

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 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.

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 Got myself a pinebook pro # I got myself an arm64 pinebook pro: