Recently on one of my personal servers, I upgraded OpenSSL to 3.2.1 and everything seemed to go smoothly. However, I then noticed that though my Postfix MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) seemed to be working, I didn’t get any updates in my email client. That, to me, indicated a problem with my Dovecot MDA (Mail Delivery …
Tag: servers
Mar 26 2021
LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for vhosts within the mail stack – via Postfix (SMTP) and Dovecot (IMAP)
For a long time, I didn’t care about using self-signed SSL certificates for the mail stack because 1) they still secured the connection to the server, and 2) those certificates weren’t seen or utilised by anyone other than me. However, for my datacentre infrastructure which houses clients’ websites and email, using self-signed or generic certificates …
Jun 03 2020
Baïkal (CalDAV) 0.7.0 in Gentoo
Just this past week, the new version of of Baïkal (0.7.0)—a PHP CalDAV and CardDAV server based on Sabre—was released, and one of the key changes was that support was added for more modern versions of PHP (like 7.4). Since my personal Gentoo server is running the ~amd64 branch, I had to wait for this …
Thought for the Moment
