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Mail Moved to Migadu

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Update: Migadu rocks and I still recommend it, but I’ve since moved to Proton Mail per Solène.

Running your own mail server is pretty difficult and running a mail server on OpenBSD is especially so. Although getting everything up and running is pretty straight forward, you inevitably run into things you don’t understand: How can I block a single address? Why am I still getting spam? Is this setup actually secure? Did such and such a person actually receive the email I sent them?

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OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 7.6

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This is your reminder to read the Upgrade Guide before spontaneously running sysupgrade. Post upgrade, I was curious why I couldn’t send/receive any e-mail. After frantically scouring through man pages I realized that opensmtpd-extras, the package I was using to read aliases/virtuals/credentials, had been deprecated! As of OpenBSD 7.6, opensmtpd now uses the package opensmtpd-table-passwd to do this.

If I had simply read the Upgrade Guide, I would have realized this before wasting half an hour! Thankfully, opensmtpd-table-passwd is a drop-in replacement that doesn’t need any additional configuration.

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st externalpipe on OpenBSD

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I spent the better half of an evening trying to figure out why the externalpipe patch on the suckless terminal (st) wasn’t working under OpenBSD. Turns out it was a simple one line fix: 

#ifdef __OpenBSD__
		-if (pledge("stdio rpath tty proc", NULL) == -1)
		+if (pledge("stdio rpath tty proc exec", NULL) == -1)
			die("pledge\n");
#endif
		close(s);
adding “exec” allows externalpipe to cut through pledge and deliver the contents of the terminal to your url handling script of choice.

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Rural New York Trip

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Several hours ago I returned from a trip to the mountainous hills spanning the border of New York and Massachusetts.

We enjoyed home cooked meals and mountain air.

I’m keeping this one short. God bless.

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Listmonk Is Great

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Christ is risen! Truly he is risen!

In the past I used GNU Mailman as a mailing list solution, but it was difficult to configure and looked tacky. Recently, I set up listmonk for a church.

listmonk logo

It runs as a binary and sets up a postgres database for you. Listmonk totally rocks and even lets you template newsletters like mailchimp and tithely. It’s wonderfully boomer-friendly and I totally recommend it!

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Summer Pictures

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I didn’t get around to doing too much this summer because of school, but I did snap a couple of pretty cool pictures with an old Nikon Coolpix. Here’s one of a gnarly banana spider my sister found:

[Big spider]

I managed to spend some time surf casting with my Dad too and we got to play around with his awesome early 2000’s Alvey. It’s sweet looking and worked like a charm:

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