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2019

October 2019 report: OpenSMTPD 6.6.0 release mostly
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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.
September 2019 report: Jules, OpenSMTPD 6.6.0 upcoming release and related things
·1461 words·7 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
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.
Setting up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
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.
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard
·3035 words·15 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us - It's ok that people have their e-mails hosted at Big Mailer Corps as long as there's enough people outside too EDIT (2019-12-15) # A practical guide to set up a mail exchanger was published on this blog.
August 2019 report: Fion, Plakar and OpenSMTPD
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Gilles Chehade
Technology Plakar Backups
TL;DR: - small inprovements to the fion window manager - plakar is a backup utility I wrote a long time ago that I will share - tons of opensmtpd stuff, mostly filters and issues handling Shout outs to my patrons !
July 2019 report: tons of smtpd work mostly
·2827 words·14 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
TL;DR: - not much work outside of OpenSMTPD this week - OpenSMTPD portable builds with OpenSSL 1.1.x again - smtp-out reporting is working correctly on my laptop - wrote two filters that I'm actually using as you read this Shout outs to my patrons !
June 2019 report: fion, bpg and smtpd
·3528 words·17 mins
Gilles Chehade
Technology
TL;DR: - started working on FION, a static tile window manager - revived BPG, a PGP parser - converted OpenSMTPD to libtls - wrote a library to make writing of native C OpenSMTPD filters easy - started writing a filter-rspamd Thanks to my patrons !
May 2019 report
·1681 words·8 mins
Technology
TL;DR: In this post I explain crudely how ca.c works and changes to OpenSMTPD related to ca.c I wrote an ECDSA privsep crypto engine I did some EEG work too This is the first report # I will now switch to a monthly report of my tech activities on this blog, and this is the first post in that new format.
happy new year 2019, a personal post
·630 words·3 mins
Gilles Chehade
Personal
TL;DR: Way too many things happened in a six months timeframe. This post won't need a TL;DR as I'll keep it short. Generalized anxiety disorder and alexithymia.

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OpenSMTPD now supports regex in match rules
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Gilles Chehade
Technology
TL;DR: regex table lookups were introduced for builtin filters. After a few weeks of working solely on filters, I wanted to work on something else.
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