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prose - Blogging with email


Author: Solène

Date: 11 June 2020

Tags: blog email blog plaintext


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The software developer prx, his website is available at

[https://ybad.name/ (en/fr)](https://ybad.name/),

released a new software called **prose** to publish a blog by sending emails.


I really like this idea, while this doesn't suit my needs at all,

I wanted to write about it.


The code can be downloaded from this address https://dev.ybad.name/prose/ .


I will briefly introduce how it works but the README file is well explaining,

prose must be started from the mail server, upon email receival in

`/etc/mail/aliases` the email will be piped into prose which will produce the

html output.


On the security side, **prose** doesn't use any external command and on OpenBSD

it will use unveil and pledge features to reduce privileges of **prose**,

unveil will restrict the process file system accesses outside of the html

output directory.


I would also congrats prx who demonstrates again that writing good software

isn't exclusive to IT professionnal.

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