> I would like to know what people use for handling email, as I've been
> using mutt for so long I don't really know what other folks do.
It depends on my platform.
On my daily driver (currenly Debian Stable; slated to become FreeBSD in
the near future), I tend to use Claws mail but have been (sloooowly)
transitioning over to mutt/neomutt.
For most of the other boxes that I manage, it's either mutt/neomutt for
anything that requires real mail management, or mail(1) for those where
I just need to read system messages and delete them without replying.
Here on tilde, I've given myself the challenge of using only mail(1) as
my mail interface (including to compose this) and ed(1) as my $EDITOR.
It's been a great way to sharpen those skills.
> That way I'll have an idea of what config examples to include on
> the docs or that perhaps there's no interest at all in this and I can
> use my time on other stuff ...
I'll grant I'm a bit of an outlier with mail(1), but the other two are
pretty common based on the other replies I've seen here.
-tim
For my every day mail, I use K9 and Claws. For tilde maile, I just use mail(1). If a mail client requires much more configuration than putting in my address, server, and password, I'll pretty much check out. I don't care about every single option, I just need something to barf text onto my screen.
That said, I'll still read your gpg documentation. =)
~rdh
Hey everyone,
Due to some recent patches that have gone out for OpenBSD,
I'm going to need to reboot the system tonight around 4:00
AM UTC/GMT. I apologize for any interruption in service. The
reboot should be completed within 60 to 90 seconds.
~ahriman
Hello everyone!
A kind soul posted a link to this modest project on
https://lobste.rs, a tech news and link aggregation site that I
frequently browse. Since then, we've had quite a few new folks
join us.
I wanted to extend a warm welcome to everyone! Feel free to
reach out if you have any questions or need anything. Either
myself or Kneezle will usually be online at a given time, so we
aren't far away as admins.
In addition to IRC, this mailing list is available for
anyone to use. I tend to use it for announcements, but anybody
is welcome to start a conversation here. :)
One thing I've been trying to focus on is the wiki. If you
learn something cool, or know something nifty, and want to share
it with others, please feel free to submit a pull request. The
repository is hosted on the tildeverse gitea instance at
https://tildegit.org/institute/site
Account registration on tildegit is open and it includes
access to https://drone.tildegit.org!
In addition to tildegit, there are tons of services available
here in the tildeverse. Check out https://tildeverse.org for a
list of some of them. One of the more recent additions is the SIP
server at https://tilde.tel, run by cat. If you feel like
relieving some stress, a while back I created a Dungeon Crawl
Stone Soup server at https://crawl.tildeverse.org. WebTiles are
available on the site. However, if you prefer a more traditional
ascii roguelike environment, simply run `dcss` from the command
line here at ~institute!
Again, welcome everybody! I'm glad to have all of you join us!
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I've installed password-store for everyone to use. For those
unfamiliar, it's a great password manager for unix-like OSes.
Rather than a proprietary database, it uses a structure of
directories and text files encrypted using the GnuPG key
specified during setup. This allows easy portability, diversity
in algorithm availability, and ease of backups.
The utility is called via /usr/local/bin/pass
Enjoy!
~ahriman
Hello everyone,
I wanted to take a moment to extend a warm welcome
to the new co-admin of tilde.institute, Kneezle.
Since joining the tildeverse, he has been a pillar
of the community, offering help and knowledge to
anyone in need. I felt like tilde.institute needed
a second person to represent it as it continues to
grow. Luckily, Kneezle was available and willing
to join the project.
In the future, if anyone has a question, a request,
or an issue, they may feel free to look for either
myself or Kneezle in IRC, or send either one of us
an email, @tilde.institute
~ahriman
Hello Everyone,
I've installed asciidoc, lowdown, and ssg4 for everyone
to use. For those unfamiliar, ssg4 is a static site
generator that uses lowdown to convert markdown documents
to HTML.
Enjoy!
~ahriman
Hello Everyone,
Fello tilder ~cat was kind enough to create a SIP server
for the tildeverse at https://tilde.tel. Call quality is
great and it features a conference line and voice mail.
Be sure to check it out soon! tilde.institute members
get a unique prefix for their "phone number"!
There's a directory on the site, but I can be reached
by calling 2033102(a)tilde.tel
--
~ahriman / Ben Morrison
PGP Key Fingerprint:
291A AFF7 A291 7DAB 0E01 6B9C EAB2 7240 9CD1 2FF0
Hello everyone,
With a bit of assistance from tomasino, the resident
tildeverse gophermeister and admin of cosmic.voyage,
I've set up burrow on tilde.institute. Burrow is a
great tool to manage your gopherhole contents and
phlogs. It even generates rss feeds for your phlog
posts!
There's now a wiki page available that will show
you how to get started with everything:
https://tilde.institute/wiki.php?page=gopher
This brings up another significant announcement,
something that's already been implied above:
tilde.institute now provides gopher access to all
users! Woohoo! A recent build of gophernicus is
used. User pages can be accessed via:
gopher://tilde.institute/1/~username
Have fun, and happy burrowing!
--
~ahriman / Ben Morrison
PGP Key Fingerprint:
291A AFF7 A291 7DAB 0E01 6B9C EAB2 7240 9CD1 2FF0
