pre-announce: acceptutils patch (was Re: filtering ofmipd-submitted messages)

On 3 Jun 2017, at 12:31, Amitai Schleier wrote:

> I intend to factor all the SMTP AUTH behavior out to a new "ofmipup" 
> program, at the end of which I suspect my ofmipd will be identical (or 
> very nearly so) to DJB's original, and my three desired config options 
> will work like so:
>
> 1. As root, "ofmipup checkpassword ofmipd"
> 2. As root, "ofmipup -u qmaild checkpassword ofmipd"
> 3. As qmaild, "ofmipd"
>
> stunnel has been fine for me, so I plan to avoid learning anything 
> about TLS while solving this problem. ;-)

Progress: the above program is now called "authup", I'm nearly finished 
with a redesigned approach to SMTP AUTH for qmail, and I've succeeded at 
not needing to think much about TLS yet.

acceptutils, once released, will add a handful of small new programs 
that fit together nicely with vanilla qmail/netqmail/mess822.

It _may_ offer improved security -- if I've done a good job, I believe 
so -- and will definitely offer improved functionality. Teaser: it makes 
both ofmipd and pymsgauth useful in new ways.

I'd love to get review and feedback on 
https://schmonz.com/qmail/acceptutils/, and/or to hear from folks who 
might be interested to try it out.

Thanks,

- Amitai