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 …
Tag: code
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 …
Apr 15 2020
Spam increase due to SpamAssassin Bayes database not available for scanning
For approximately the past six weeks or so, I’ve noticed an uptick in the amount of spam getting through (and delivered) on my primary mail server. At first the increase in false negatives (meaning spam not getting flagged as such) wasn’t all that bad, so I didn’t think much of it. However, starting last week …