Openbsd
Once you have self-hosted email up and running, you may want to add the Calendar and Addressbook features to your service bag. Nowadays, the standard protocols regarding those subjects are CalDAV and CardDAV.
I decided to go with Baikal , the dedicated CalDAV+CardDAV server based on the sabre/dav framework ; the same framework used in Nextcloud DAV services AFAIK.
It relies on PHP and is available as a package on OpenBSD.Continue reading...
Looking at my notes , it seems I haven’t setup an email services server from scratch since 2015. Of course, mine have evolved following OpenBSD updates and upgrades.
Let’s benefits from the fact that I’m migrating from Vultr to OpenBSD Amsterdam to write a few notes about the mail server (re)creation. At the time of writing, OpenBSD is available in version 7.2.Continue reading...
Those are my notes about installing OpenBSD 7.2 on the ODROID-HC4 ; an arm64 board that provides SATA slots. It is quite straightforward to install, once you get the ordered steps.Continue reading...
In early 2019, I got fed up with Twitter Ads and recommendations etc. So I started looking for alternatives and read about Mastodon. As I was especially looking for OpenBSD news, tricks etc, I finally landed on bsd.network. It turned out to be a really nice place to hang out ; and not BSD-centric at all. People there are great. And MastoAdmins are kind and caring people.
A couple of years later, I decided that I would host my own instance on the Fediverse. And the journey began.Continue reading...
The Internet is full of Ads and Trackers. And a way to avoid those is to simply not reach the stinky servers. This can be partially done using a local DNS resolver.
This article is a reboot of both the 2019 Blocking Ads using unbound on OpenBSD and Storing unbound logs into InfluxDB posts ; hopefully improved.Continue reading...