[H-GEN] OpenSMTPD - interesting.

[Stephen Thorne]

Email is very hard to implement correctly.

It is even harder to implement it both correctly and be compatible with all
the shitty email server implementations out there, or all the hand-rolled
email sending PHP scripts that open a socket to you to deliver their mail.

I'm rather a fan of postfix, which is somewhat difficult (it takes reading
documentation and writing a few configuration directives in a well
commented file) to configure, but amazingly flexible and extensible. It
also uses a similar multi-process architecture that OpenSMTPD does.

It also supports plugging in spam filters, which is on the 'Limitations'
section of that presentation (right above "Suitable for lots of use-cases",
take of that what you will).


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:40 AM, 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.
>
> http://www.opensmtpd.org/**presentations/asiabsdcon2013-**smtpd/#slide-8<http://www.opensmtpd.org/presentations/asiabsdcon2013-smtpd/#slide-8>(HTML/js based slides)
>
> 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.
>
> It runs on pretty much everything Unixy.
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