Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: > > If you visit this site, it doesn't allow adblock to be in use.  I can't tell > if it has the actual list or not.  Sites that don't like my adblock blocking > their annoying ads that I will never click on gets

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-18 Thread Dale
Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, August 17, 2020 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: > >> If you visit this site, it doesn't allow adblock to be in use.  I can't tell >> if it has the actual list or not.  Sites that don't like my adblock blocking >> their annoying

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:00:52AM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > yes. smtp is nasty, and also redundant. S.M.T.P. is extremely well-established, and has always been a reasonably pleasant experience for me. Which part of the protocol makes you think of it as "nasty"? > makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:00:52AM +, Caveman wrote in <2gbde2AzVUH4P9HuGPvBvJpZBjaeFBqUfOPfrojvSXcRQgqYcNuLDa0BZbdtS1QrvKymDpPLozphS0JtKDgRXX4WE1rh439hq_VnseMCJZo=@protonmail.com>: yes. smtp is nasty, and also redundant. How is it redundant? makes me wonder if i should just create me a

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Jarry
On 18-Aug-20 8:43, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: would i get blacklisted for simply not using spf/dkim/etc? even if no other user is using the mail service other than me and i'm not mass mailing? Well, hear my story: I too was running simple mail-server. Just a few users I trust, no public

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:48 PM, Jarry wrote: > Rent VPS and be your own admin. But running properly configured > mail-server is not so easy. Setting up postfix/exim/sendmail > is just a beginning. If you mean it seriously and do not want > your IP to land on

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:33 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > How many concurrent users will be connected to the mail server? How much > traffic > will the S.M.T.P. server receive (read: how many e-mails arrive on a daily > basis)? If you really don't trust your

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 8:00 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/16/20 10:50 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > 3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may read my emails, > > and laugh at me! > > Do you have any (anecdotal) evidence that this has

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 2:43 AM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:48 PM, Jarry wrote: > > > Rent VPS and be your own admin. But running properly configured > > mail-server is not so easy. Setting up postfix/exim/sendmail > > is just a

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:21 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:00:52AM +, Caveman wrote in > > > yes. smtp is nasty, and also redundant. > > How is it redundant? redundant as in containing concepts already done in other protocols, so

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/18/20 4:30 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: but nothing can replace it in terms of interoperability and convenience. That is an EXTREMELY important point. SMTP is a protocol that completely independent implementations can use to exchange messages with each other. You can set up gateways to

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread james
On 8/18/20 4:36 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 8/18/20 5:59 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: redundant as in containing concepts already done in other protocols, so smtp has many re-invented wheels that are already invented in existing protocols. Please elaborate.� Please be careful to provide

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/18/20 5:59 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: redundant as in containing concepts already done in other protocols, so smtp has many re-invented wheels that are already invented in existing protocols. Please elaborate. Please be careful to provide information about /when/ the protocols

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/18/20 1:00 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: not specifically with a mail provider, but with other i.t. services, yes. and since they're all humans, then the simplest model that explains this is that this is about humans in general, and same past experience would extend to mail provider's

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/18/20 12:43 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: would i get blacklisted for simply not using spf/dkim/etc? even if no other user is using the mail service other than me and i'm not mass mailing? I don't think it's that you would be black listed per say. Rather, I think it's that nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/18/20 4:25 PM, james wrote: I find all of this *fascinating*. ;-) So I have threads from 7/28 and others that attempt to discover  the (gentoo) packages necessary to run my own email services. I have (2) R.Pi4 (8Gram) and (2) more on order to build out complete mail/DNS/security for a

[gentoo-user] Time to switch back to AMD?

2020-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
For several decades, I was a loyal AMD customer. But the last time I upgraded my home desktop (2013), AMD just didn't seem to have anything that could complete with the Core-i3/5 CPUs with integrated graphics. The Intel HD-2500 GPU was plenty fast enough for everything I did back then, so I went

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
> So you want to change from a ubiquitous protocol that is supported by > many Many MANY devices to niche protocol that has a non-trivial > installation / configuration curve. 1st half is "yes", 2nd half is "no" (mine is simpler). > > then, verify messages by mailing their supplied email a