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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Oh but I have them !
    Every day an email is sent out with the backup status.
    Every day I got my email in the morning with the back up logs.
    For years.
    I associated email received to backup successful, until a month or so when my vpn broke and the emails where just “could not connect”, but it took me a while to bother actually opening the message body as it had always been the same for years.

    So I’ll manage it differently, have the email subject be more explicit about a success or a failure amongst other things.
    Always learning :^)



  • Good old “don’t judge a book by its cover”

    Some books have names that don’t evocate much, a tame cover and end up being smut books. Quick search brings up “Normal people”. Unassuming title and cover, you might guess romance, but quoting an article mentioning it “The sex scenes in this one really do jump off the page”.
    You might not want your 10-13 y/o reading about that just yet…

    Some other might have toxic ideas, graphic depiction of violence, or lots of things you might want a teen to not read just yet.





  • I ended up going with Crowdsec.

    The setup was a bit of a challenge as I like to do it the RTFM way abd that there is a bunch of concepts to grasp before you really understand what you are doing, but since then it’s been working pretty great ! And it’s free (as in you are providing them with data on the occurence of threats etc, so you don’t pay)




  • Full disclaimer : I’ve only ever used stalwart. Started with it and had no reason to change.

    Been using it for about a year as a mail server for my services.

    The set up is simple, configuration can be done through the webui or the conf files.
    Creating users, mails, aliases etc is very straight forward.
    Everything is pretty much painless, the documentation has almost everything you might need.
    You can also configure automatic cert renewal. Something else I really like is that when you add a domain (you can have multiple) it also gives you the DNS configuration to add to your DNS server.

    Honestly I’d say it’s a solid choice. On my side it’ll be part of futur projects where a mail server is needed.