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2013

OpenSMTPD: minor fixes + preparing release
·672 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
OHAI, We had planned to slow down a bit to prepare for release: no more feature, no more invasive changes until we tag something out of which we can publish a release.
OpenSMTPD: gentlemen, fasten your seatbelt
·661 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
OHAI, Lately we have stabilized and decided that we’re okay with the features we have for our first release, this time for good, so we focused on making sure that we didn’t introduce regressions and that we were rock solid.
OpenSMTPD: stress and features
·1663 words·8 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
<p>Hey,</p> I wanted to publish something last Friday but I unfortunately got my hands on a copy of Super Nintendo's Zelda which led to an instant loss of motivation.
Welcome to you, 2013
·404 words·2 mins
Gilles Chehade
personal
YO! I know I should have posted a “Happy New Year” note earlier but you know how it is: new year eve’s aftermath, days to recover, work resumes, mood slacks, bleh.

2012

OpenSMTPD: SSL & relay stuff
·735 words·4 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
OHAI, I was unable to write a story last week as my desk broke into pieces for no apparent reason but my foot hitting it accidentally.
OpenSMTPD: LDAP support, selectable source, DKIM and Goodies
·1327 words·7 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
<p>OHAI,</p> This week has been crazy, my brain melted a little as I worked on filters, it melted a little as I worked on LDAP and it melted a little more as I tried to trick Eric into working on filters with me (yes, that actually worked :-).
OpenSMTPD: fully virtual setups, updated DNS & MTA code, SQLite support
·1419 words·7 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
OHAI, This week I had intended to work on filters. After 3 days of pain and swearing, even though it did move forward, I finally decided to step back for a few days and work on something else to preserve my sanity.
OpenSMTPD: more features, more cleanup, more more
·1797 words·9 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
OHAI, First of all, on a completely unrelated note, I’d like to emphasize that this blog post is being written from my text editor launched by a little shell and pushed to poolp using the Ocean API.
News from the front
·890 words·5 mins
Gilles Chehade
technology
Almost a month since my last post… I know, I know. So I left my position at Scality two weeks ago. I had been there for a year and a half working on a very interesting and tricky project.
OpenSMTPD: crypto/compress fixes and import initial stab at LDAP
·150 words·1 min
Gilles Chehade
technology
The crypto backend that has been committed a couple days ago started a little discussion and it was decided to switch the default cipher from Blowfish to AES-128 and make it a default.
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