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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 6.0.0 release yesterday.

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 result of over a year and a half of very very deep refactor in our IO layer and the addition of a very elegant but also very tricky new API.

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:

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.

Why we killed the MFA (filter) process # For as long as I can remember, a process called MFA was created by OpenSMTPD at start time.

EHLO world ! # Yesterday I thought I’d write a first OpenSMTPD-related post to sum up the changes that have happened since this summer but it turned out to be painful as they amount to quite a lot. Instead, I think a better strategy is to split this into a serie of smaller posts focused on the specific changes ;-)

Good news everyone ! With last post dating from almost a year, we can all agree that I’ve outpassed my slacking skills by a great margin and I probably deserve an award of some kind ;-)

Hey, No OpenSMTPD news since almost a month… time to break the trend ! As far as I’m concerned, I’ve been busy with other work but still a git log shows that between Eric and I we have accumulated quite a few things during this month. Below is a short non-exhaustive summary of changes and news.

EHLO readers, This blog post is the first since a few months, I’ve been busy and struggling with some personal health and familial issues. I won’t share them here as its not really something anyone can help with, so… let’s focus on OpenSMTPD !

Yop, This week has been very productive with several tickets closed and more about to be closed. Eric has done an amazing work as you will soon realize ;-)