Re: OpenBSD and letsencrypt in Amazon AWS

2018-09-09 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 09/09/18 07:05, Monah Baki wrote: Hi All, I have a OpenBSD 6.3 server in Amazon AWS, and I am trying to install from ports letsencrypt. Install was running fine till I got a Fatal message after it was done with the patching process ... Thanks Monah acme-client(1) is in base and is used

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:55:40AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > > Ken, > > > > Just curious, are you using pf to filter out the bad websites for > > you kids? I find that to be more challenging for our older daughter > > to not stumble into the bad stuff and not the wholesome sites like > > ope

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Óscar Rubén Cuéllar Valcárcel
Yes, First was with qmail,  and now is with OpenSMTPD, four domains. All my servers are OpenBSD. /Ama et fact quod vis/ *Óscar Rubén Cuéllar Valcárcel* 044 55 2678 1717 El 09/09/18 a las 11:34, Ken M escribió: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 08:49:26AM +, Tim Jones wrote: >> Ken, >> >> Putting all

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 04:52:01PM +, Ken M wrote: > But frankly they go to a friends house in our red neck area with non tech > savvy > parents and who knows what happens. But frankly anywhere they are there is > always something that could happen. I feel like there is no winning the battle >

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Kaya Saman
On 9/9/18 5:54 PM, Ken M wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:49:31PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: In a nutshell, monitoring email is concentrating on what is really likely to be one of the less problematic areas. The others, which IMO are MUCH more likely to be involved if any problems do occu

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On a side note to this whole chain. My wife and I had another conversation about this, and I think we are on the same page that there is no win in monitoring their email. So I think I can stay out of the mail server business for now, which I like. I pointed our how her dad was a cop and what happe

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:49:31PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > In a nutshell, monitoring email is concentrating on what is really > likely to be one of the less problematic areas. The others, which IMO > are MUCH more likely to be involved if any problems do occur, are less > amenable to th

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:46:40PM +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: > > Maybe your ISP has option for "Parental Control"?? I know these days it is a > big concern so many do offer this type of service > > > Just a thought?? > As I mentioned we use OpenDNS for the home internet, which handles all c

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/09/09 12:37, Ken M wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:08:39AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Scanning for troubling words is not going to work without being able to > > see the email itself for context. Whether it's automated scanning or > > reading the mails yourself there are still p

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Kaya Saman
On 9/9/18 5:42 PM, Ken M wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 11:24:38AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: While you should not take technical advice on mail servers from me, I've raised two kids to adulthood with a 17 year old to go, and had almost 200 foster children. The impedance mismatch you have

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 11:24:38AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > While you should not take technical advice on mail servers from me, > I've raised two kids to adulthood with a 17 year old to go, and had > almost 200 foster children. > > The impedance mismatch you have with the missus is mor

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:08:39AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Scanning for troubling words is not going to work without being able to > see the email itself for context. Whether it's automated scanning or > reading the mails yourself there are still privacy issues. Plus whatever > monitoring

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Ken M
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 08:49:26AM +, Tim Jones wrote: > Ken, > > Putting all the OpenBSD evangelists to one side, there are two things to say. > > First, like me, you might use OpenBSD for many things. And like me, you might > come to the conclusion that using OpenBSD for mail is not one of

Re: Ways to get PostgreSQL working with base httpd?

2018-09-09 Thread Robert Klein
On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 08:32:17 -0700 Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:10:51AM +, Timo Myyrä wrote: > > Chris Bennett writes: > > > > > I know that PostgreSQL can be accessed via a socket or through > > > 127.0.0.1. > > I read your mail and I still don't know what you are t

Re: Ways to get PostgreSQL working with base httpd?

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Bennett
Funky connection so I skipped this on purpose. dmesg: OpenBSD 6.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #285: Sat Sep 1 12:51:52 MDT 2018 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 4077236224 (3888MB) avail mem = 3944423424 (3761MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 ta

Re: Ways to get PostgreSQL working with base httpd?

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:10:51AM +, Timo Myyrä wrote: > Chris Bennett writes: > > > I know that PostgreSQL can be accessed via a socket or through > > 127.0.0.1. > I read your mail and I still don't know what you are trying to accomplish. > Could you give a more specific questions so they a

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 12:23:41PM +, Thomas Bohl wrote: > > But the second (far more important) point I want to make is please *THINK > > TWICE* if "running your own mail server" is something you are planning to > > do on your home internet connection. > > For all intents and purposes, send

Re: OpenBSD and letsencrypt in Amazon AWS

2018-09-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-09-09, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a OpenBSD 6.3 server in Amazon AWS, and I am trying to install from > ports letsencrypt. Install was running fine till I got a Fatal message > after it was done with the patching process In most cases, ports is really intended for ports develo

Re: "Transit" BGPD not announcing learnt routes to neighbors

2018-09-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-09-09, Tim Jones wrote: > >> "announce all" is probably missing here, since the default in 6.3 was >> "announce self" and so transit routes would be filtered. >> > > Fabulous ! Thanks for that. > > I was somewhere along the right lines, but I was confused with talk in the > docs of "ann

Re: "Transit" BGPD not announcing learnt routes to neighbors

2018-09-09 Thread Tim Jones
> "announce all" is probably missing here, since the default in 6.3 was > "announce self" and so transit routes would be filtered. > Fabulous ! Thanks for that. I was somewhere along the right lines, but I was confused with talk in the docs of "announce all" being no-op which I took to mean "

OpenBSD and letsencrypt in Amazon AWS

2018-09-09 Thread Monah Baki
Hi All, I have a OpenBSD 6.3 server in Amazon AWS, and I am trying to install from ports letsencrypt. Install was running fine till I got a Fatal message after it was done with the patching process ===> Applying OpenBSD patch patch-setup_py Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text le

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Thomas Bohl
Am 09.09.2018 um 15:36 schrieb flipchan: > Randomly jumping into this thread , does anyone have a quick and easy way to > do auto matical responses to certain aliases in opensmtpd? > Not with OpenSMTPD, but with Dovecot's Sieve https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples#Vacation_auto

Re: "Transit" BGPD not announcing learnt routes to neighbors

2018-09-09 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 01:17:40PM +, Tim Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working with something in a lab environment at the moment, testing out > OpenBGPD to see if it can replace "something else" on an internal network. > > I have three OpenBSD instances (A <->B<->C), and whilst B is learning r

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread flipchan
Randomly jumping into this thread , does anyone have a quick and easy way to do auto matical responses to certain aliases in opensmtpd? On September 9, 2018 12:23:41 PM UTC, Thomas Bohl wrote: >> But the second (far more important) point I want to make is please >*THINK TWICE* if "running your

"Transit" BGPD not announcing learnt routes to neighbors

2018-09-09 Thread Tim Jones
Hi, I'm working with something in a lab environment at the moment, testing out OpenBGPD to see if it can replace "something else" on an internal network. I have three OpenBSD instances (A <->B<->C), and whilst B is learning routes from C, it is not pushing them out to A, no matter how relaxed I

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Mika
My personal experience with vultr is good. At the moment I'm using my own 6.2 iso. Everything runs smoothly. Regarding network performance I noticed no problems till today but it is just a small mail server. On 9 September 2018 10:05:16 BST, Étienne > > On 8 September 2018 19:55:16 BST, Ken M

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Thomas Bohl
> But the second (far more important) point I want to make is please *THINK > TWICE* if "running your own mail server" is something you are planning to do > on your home internet connection. For all intents and purposes, sending emails from a private internet connection directly to the receiving

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:08:39AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> own email server, when I have never done it before on any OS, worth it > >> over some > >> other solution. And yes I am very open to other suggestions for a > >> solution, even > >> if it is something I have to pay for, to avoid

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-09-09, Friedrich Locke wrote: > if you demand for performance, FreeBSD + Qmail-ldap is THE way to go. qmail-ldap (or, well, anything+ldap for that matter) is a relatively complex setup and total overkill for a personal mail server. > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:26 PM Ken M wrote: > >> Ju

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-09 Thread Tim Jones
Ken, Putting all the OpenBSD evangelists to one side, there are two things to say. First, like me, you might use OpenBSD for many things. And like me, you might come to the conclusion that using OpenBSD for mail is not one of those things.Personally I prefer to use a decent Linux stack for my m

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Zbyszek Żółkiewski
> Wiadomość napisana przez Ken M w dniu 08.09.2018, o godz. > 20:55: > > 2. Is vultr a good place to host an openbsd box? If not interested in hearing > alternatives. my own experience: 1) Vultr gave me very bad support experience. If you restore from snapshot you have to open support ticke

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread Étienne
On 8 September 2018 19:55:16 BST, Ken M > My questions are: > >1. Is it still current information that it would be better to use my >own >image/install/iso for openbsd on Vultr? I just like to manage the disk my own way, so I don't use their install process. But they provide iPXE and that

Re: Vultr hosting of OpenBSD

2018-09-09 Thread flipchan
I think vultr is setting a great example that many hosting providers should follow, I mean I bet 65% run kvm and then it is possible to run openbsd , but I think many providers doesn't put in the energy to do it / configure a template for it On September 9, 2018 12:26:29 AM UTC, Ken M wrote: >