Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
That's debateable, DOS sure, but you have much greater control and speed of access with a local mail server and past mail will still be accessible during any attack. I wasn't referring to DOS/DDOS-style reliability. In my mind, reliability ~= uptime 99.999% Of course, you're correct in

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz: So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not most naive setups

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-13 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: My other option is to host my own mail server, either at home or on a VPS (which would cost more), which means much lowered reliability, which means much lowered reliability Sending to you directly as this mail was

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-12 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
From the responses I've received, I gather the following: - Crypto is only going to get me so far, unless I can coerce all incoming email to use TLS - Until I have a steady income, my best bet is to use Google Apps for my domain and to download all incoming mail - probably deleting it from

[arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Recently, my paranoia levels have been ratcheted up by reading about companies' treatment of their users, along with an increasing awareness of my powerlessness with respect to most content providers. I therefore curbed most online activity and have attempted to host those services I used on my

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Thank you. The questions posed were quite enlightening, and showed me that this needs a bit more thought. I believe first question you need to answer is: what is your threat model? Are you afraid of losing all your mails (backups)? Losing control over your email address? What are you going to

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
I do a combination of #1 and #2. I have a (cheap!) web hosting account (with Dreamhost) which also provides me with an email address on their mail system. I have the DNS entries for my domain point to Dreamhost, so any mail for my domain gets delivered there. But I only use Dreamhost as a

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Taylor Hedberg tmhedb...@gmail.com wrote: Menachem Moystoviz, Thu 2012-10-11 @ 13:23:32+0200: Which do you suggest? Do you have an alternative? I use Postfix + Dovecot on an Arch Linux Linode VPS and I'm pretty happy with it. 2) Hard to maintain, can crash

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. Sounds good. Will only have to figure out how to get money... Gesh

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:29 PM, phanisvara listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: On Thursday 11 Oct 2012 18:18:10 Menachem Moystoviz wrote: Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. Sounds good. Will only have to figure

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Reading through the responses, I find that my previous evaluation of my options was correct. The most reliable and easiest solution, by far, would be to set up a standard account, and to download a copy of all emails. The only problems with this are the lack of control and privacy. My other option

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 21:47:14 Norbert Zeh wrote: I tried to keep my mouth shut but can't resist to reply here because I simply don't understand how you think the world works. Do you want to see proof that every

Re: [arch-general] secondary dns with zone transfer

2012-08-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 01tto...@gmail.com wrote: is there any free secondary dns provider that supports zone transfer? BTW: well, this is kind of off topic as it hasn't to do with arch, but help is needed... :P thanks in advance! -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your

Re: [arch-general] dovecot postfix + mysql

2012-08-21 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jean-Luc Bassereau j...@onetoserve.net wrote: Le Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:54:37 +0300 Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 01tto...@gmail.com a écrit : nope :( take a look, /var/log/mail.log: Aug 21 15:21:28 localhost postfix/smtpd[6461]: disconnect from

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-04 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote: On 03.08.2012 17:55, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: I'll try to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage and the wiki page. Wait for the next pacman version because all this VCS code is being rewritten. Check

[arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-03 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. From what Allan said on this mailing list a couple of days ago, custom support is being added to makepkg. In addition, from what I can see on the wiki and manpages, the only variable influencing the versioning is pkgver. However, from

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-03 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage and the wiki page. Regards, M On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:37 PM, arielp ar...@drakkn.net wrote: On 8/3/2012 6:56 AM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. From what Allan said

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-28 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
As far as I can tell from the systemd blog and people's reactions here, the only advantages systemd offers are: - Splitting the configuration files, which increases the robustness of the configuration files - Daemon supervision - Bootup speedup by parallelizing the daemons. However, from the

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC, after the fact] initscripts config

2012-07-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:46:52 +0200 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Yclept Nemo orbisvi...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Personally this depends on the final rc.conf, is [1] or [2] going to be