hey ~teammates,
if you're new to the team and haven't heard about the freebsd server
that we maintain for ~team users.
it's somewhat barebones, but has web- and mailservers that are up and
running, ready to serve php and static files from ~/public_html.
this is the process that i use to migrate user accounts:
https://gist.github.com/benharri/2a515dbde2dfdf3294dffe7b1be56e67
~/.ssh/authorized_keys is copied over from tilde.team proper, meaning
you can ssh to bsd.tilde.team with the same keys that you use here.
there's also an inspircd node running there for the tilde.chat network,
so you can connect to localhost/6667 there as well.
i plan on using this list as a place to post updates and other info.
holler here if you need anything or have any package requests etc.
~ben
Hi folks !
I was thinking about writing some documentation about email (and maybe
more) encryption using GnuPG. The target would be not-so-techy tilde
users. And the objective would be that anybody can use public key
encryption if they want to with minimal hassle.
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.
Please answer to this post (I'll publish it also on bbj and maybe
tilde.news) with your combo of OS/email agent or simply with a "not
interested".
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 ...
That's it, please take a couple of minutes to answer this ;-)
Have a nice day !
--
Paco Esteban.
GnuPG key: https://onna.be/44CA735E.asc
hey ~teammates!
i'm planning on moving tilde.team to its new home next weekend
(tentatively planned for saturday night).
i've ordered a new server from ovh (in their canada datacenter). i got
it 25% off and it has roughly similar specs to the machine we've been
running on for a while now. the main bonus i get on this new machine is
the 16 IPs that are included for no additional cost.
~team will live in a VM with 32gb ram, 6 vCPUs, and 1tb disk.
the migration itself isn't a huge deal, but the dns changes required
will be the hard part here. i'll be working this week to come up with
a neat solution to be able to throw the switch all at once.
feel free to holler here if you have any concerns or suggestions.
if you want to see how the ping will change, you can check against
51.79.32.48 (the new ip).
thanks,
~ben
> 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
> Hi folks !
Hey, Paco!
> I was thinking about writing some documentation about email (and maybe
> more) encryption using GnuPG. The target would be not-so-techy tilde
> users. And the objective would be that anybody can use public key
> encryption if they want to with minimal hassle.
documentation is always good!
> 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.
Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows, my dude - however, I honestly don't
know how to encrypt emails using PGP or GPG - documentation would be
great in this area, but i feel i'm gonna get a reply from ben directly,
saying "rtfm" lol.
> Have a nice day !
You too, Paco! :)
Thanks,
Brendan Webb | ~brendantcc
(i accidentally sent this directly to Paco originally, my bad!)
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
