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April 2020: worked on a webmail and a bit of OpenSMTPD too
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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.
Anxiety, OpenBSD break, COVID-19 and resuming work
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Gilles Chehade
Personal
TL;DR: - I took a break to deal with personal stuff - I'm taking a long break from OpenBSD for personal reasons - I may or may not have experienced COVID-19, who knows - resumed work on OpenSMTPD and other projects This is a weird report # This is a weird report.
OpenSMTPD advisory dissected
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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 ?
January 2020: OpenSMTPD work - libasr and libtls
·1770 words·9 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
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.
December 2019: OpenSMTPD and filters work, articles and goodies
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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:
Decentralised SMTP is for the greater good
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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 ?
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