By default your Debian server will try to deliver system / Cron emails to your mailbox server directly. While this is convenient for very simple setups, you might run into trouble if your inbox server expects DKIM-signed mails or does not accept emails from every IP address, but only from mail senders with good reputation. For that reason I’m running a single, well configured email gateway server, which is forwarding the mails from all my hosts into the internet. But how to tell all the hosts to send their mails via a central gateway? Installing and configuring Postfix is one way …
In this guide I’ll show the necessary steps to set up a Codeberg Git repository in Drone CI and run a simple build pipeline to generate and upload your static Hugo website. Anoxinon e.V. from Germany is using a very similar setup to make its blog authors' life easier.
All the steps are shown in an LXD based environment on Debian 10 Buster. Of course it will work very similarly on other Linux systems.
If you follow my Mastodon account, you might know that I like IPv6 very much. I’m trying to do my best to offer all my services via the new IP protocol. Lately I was investigating the use of IPv6 in my server network. Unfortunately the result was quite disappointing:
Usually there’s no reason to get worried if you forget the password for an online service that you’re using. Platform providers are aware of their forgetful users and provide a simple method to reset your password and regain access to your account. All you need to do is to enter your email address and wait for a customized link. That link lets you change your password or request a new one.
Yesterday I moved my old Prosody setup to a new Ejabberd-based XMPP server setup. I’d like to leave you a few notes on why and how I did that.