On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:58:12PM +0000, gil...@poolp.org wrote: > Hellow, > > I have been working on a new table backend: table-procexec. > > What it does is translate the imsg table API to a line-based protocol that is > very similar to what we did for filters. A table backend can become a program > consuming table requests from stdin and responding to stdout: > > stdin : table > > > The idea behind this is to unlock table backend development to people who are > not necessarily C developers and who could still write useful implementations > in other languages. Like with filters, this makes it possible to use anything > from awk to shell, Go, Python and what not without OpenSMTPD caring about how > these backends are implemented. > > I have written a Golang package to abstract the protocol details and that let > you write a backend by implementing the four basic operations of table API. A > sample table-example.go is available here to see how a backend looks like: > > https://gist.github.com/poolpOrg/b3b97a65791a11a49f5e76ea51331ae4 > > > If people are willing to help implement some backends, hit me up > > Cheers, > Gilles
Sweet. Looking at https://github.com/poolpOrg/go-opensmtpd/blob/master/table/table.go seems like it will be pretty simple to write some nice tables. Thanks!
