Hello misc@, It's been calm for a while due to "real-life (tm)" events that had to be handled in priority as far as I'm concerned, I don't know of the reasons why the others are slacking though :-)
I've been willing to send this mail for a while to outline some of the big plans for 2017 regarding OpenSMTPD and some of the changes that are planned in different parts of the daemon. First of all, regarding filters, since that's the question that is coming the more often: Filters are neither dead or alive. We have implemented an API and the mechanics to make that API work and this is what people started using while we warned them not to. Turns out that while implementing a specific filter I hit an issue which made it clear that there was a fundamental design issue with the mechanics below the API that couldn't be worked around without requiring a non-trivial refactor. We had a long chat with eric@ about this design issue and how this could be redesigned in a way that all the work we've done is still usable and we figured a way which will reuse a big part of what we already did, which guarantees that we will not find a design error later down the chain and which as a bonus simplifies the daemon. We're going to be working towards this way but now that we have an experience in how providing the code early turned into a nightmare for me, we'll work in a private branch then show the diff when the code is working enough that it can be part of snapshots :-) Then, regarding the MTA we're going to do a pass of simplification because the code has evolved into something quite complex and from experience gathered in the mail industry these last few years, the code can be made much more efficient while MUUUUUUUUUCH simpler. Finally, there is ongoing work that's going to span over months to improve some configuration structures which is going to have a lot of interesting side-effects which I'm going to keep as a surprise, but that are going to be impressive. I personnally look forward to this more than filters given the amounts of improvements this will unlock in many areas ranging from configuration, to reload, to MTA and MDA. Stay tuned ! -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to misc@opensmtpd.org To unsubscribe, send a mail to: misc+unsubscr...@opensmtpd.org
