Title: prose - Blogging with email | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 11 June 2020 | |
Tags: blog email blog plaintext | |
Description: | |
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. |