Hi Gilles, Thank you for expressing your plans. Looking forward to the changes. Keep it coming, you are doing great things!
Mischa > On 9 Feb 2017, at 10:44, Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote: > > 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 > -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to misc@opensmtpd.org To unsubscribe, send a mail to: misc+unsubscr...@opensmtpd.org
