Articles tagged networking

1. Using Modern Linux Sockets

   Introduction

   On the surface of it the Linux socket API is pretty straight forward. However once you start to care about performance things get a bit more complicated, and documentation a bit more sparse.

   Because I thought it'd be fun to explore this a bit more I made a simple …

2. Experiments with an Email Protocol

   Background

   The primary way I use email is through notmuch and notmuch-emacs on my laptop, which reads email from a local maildir. Sending mail is done using the venerable sendmail(8) command, which is backed by nullmailer to send it out via SMTP to the relay server of my email …