[H-GEN] OpenSMTPD - interesting.

[Grant Byers]

Hi Daniel,

Not sure what the list etiquette is here around top posting/inline, etc.,
but I'm gonna respond inline. Sorry in advance if that upsets anyone!

On May 2, 2013 1:41 PM, "Daniel Devine" <devine at ddevnet.net> wrote:
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> I saw OpenSMTPD mentioned in relation to the newest OpenBSD release (I'm
not a OpenBSD user, but I'm curious about OS development in general). I
found a presentation on the project page which I thought may be of interest
to some of the HUMBUG members who have not given their soul and email to
Google.
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> http://www.opensmtpd.org/presentations/asiabsdcon2013-smtpd/#slide-8(HTML/js based slides)
>

Certainly looks interesting. They've made it easy to add new queueing &
scheduling backends, and the configuration syntax looks clean. Filtering
appears pretty limited at the moment though. I'd expect people to spend
quite a bit of time improving that side of things.

Still, I don't really see anything that sets this apart from other MTAs
like Postfix. IMO, Postfix was the mail server to kill all other mail
servers & I find it hard to fathom that many vendors insist on shipping
with send mail as default (although it certainly keeps the old timers
happy).

Anything developed by the OpenBSD guys does tend to be extremely well
documented (including code) and is generally easy to maintain and extend
though. That may set them apart.

> I really like the non-bloated feature set, joyously simple configuration
(IMO, though I've come to accept the Postfix way) and because it's OpenBSD
related you know it has it fairly satisfactory on the security side of
things.
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> It runs on pretty much everything Unixy.
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