Hi, Oops; as John Doherty pointed out, my email was unclear. The monthly invoices are sent via email; a physical mailing address is only required to show why non-Canadians aren't paying Canadian tax.
Signing up for monthly emails has another benefit: if something changes in the email setup and you can't receive emails from mail.tarsnap.com, there's a chance that you'll notice the missing monthly emails and investigate. This isn't a foolproof system -- it's hard to notice the lack of a monthly email -- but at least it's another chance. As for deleting archives from X years ago, there are a number of third-party archive management scripts; some of which can probably do that: https://www.tarsnap.com/helper-scripts.html If you want to maintain a database yourself, that's of course quite reasonable. Another option would be to run: tarsnap --list-archive -v to see a list of archive names and dates. You could do that once a year, and prune the "too old" archives. (That avoids the step of keeping a database yourself.) Cheers, - Graham On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 11:20:37AM -0800, jerry wrote: > Well, > > I've solved my email woes. I think. I have successfully installed > and enabled SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and TLS. So I'll be ready to start a new > Tarsnap account. The problem with incoming mail was a badly implemented > fail2ban filter. For now, I just deleted it. > > Here's a feature request though. Nothing to do with billing. > > I'd like to be able to specify a lifetime for each archive. I really > have no interest in being able to reconstitute a machine from 10 years ago. > > Could probably do it on this end - just have my backup task maintain a > database of archives with their dates and names, and auto delete any one > that's older than a couple of years. > > Not really interested in paper invoices. I detest paper. Have way too > much of it already. In fact, tarsnap is part of my general "eliminate > paper" > strategy. > > - JerryK > > > On 2024-03-09 10:58, Graham Percival wrote: > > At the moment, all Canadians receive invoices (which include balance > > notifications) once a month. Non-Canadians can receive them upon > > request (although a physical mailing address is required for the > > invoice). > > https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#monthly-invoices > > > > I know that this isn't exactly what you're requesting, but at least the > > monthly invoices are something that's already in place. > > > > (Albeit at the cost of sending Colin an email, and providing a physical > > mailing address. Also, a single item halfway down the FAQ page might > > not be the easiest way to discover this option.) > > > > Cheers, > > - Graham > > > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:46:45AM -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > > > New Feature request, (Followup to "Tarsnap died" thread) > > > > > > Consider adding a "Balance Alert" tab > > > > > > Accounts -> Manage account -> Balance Alert > > > > > > -=-=-=- > > > > > > Balance Alert notifications sent to "[email protected]": > > > > > > o- Only when balance is low or negative (default) > > > > > > o Additional balance notifications once per year > > > > > > o Additional balance notifications once per month > > > > > > -=-=-=- > > > > > > Notes: > > > > > > 1. The definition of "year" and "month" could be based on account > > > creation date as t=0. > > > > > > 2. A { Test Alert Now } button, or "Send balance notification within > > > 24 hours" checkbox, would also be useful. > > > > > > 3. Big-tech email systems are constantly adding requirements for > > > email to land in the inbox, (ex: require SPF and DKIM headers). So > > > being able to know if Tarsnap alert emails are being received would > > > be useful. > > > > > > > > > Lonnie > > >
