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@retoor cows are sneaky animal who want to murder humans.
I would go full vegan if it means stop breeding these bloodthirthy monsters. Just kill them all. -
@ANTIASYLUMIST i recommend to just try it.
also: i don't mean in a windmill. i mean by hand. muscle power. -
How many people do you know who can write their own HTTP parser (or would even attempt it)?
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yes cuz when i tried to look into it there are people selling you shit but not telling you how it works
modern existence sucks -
Hazarth97295dI actually set up my own mail just last month. It's awesome cause I can get as many throw away emails as I want and no website has my domain blacklisted so they can't fight back... Good for those pesky Times when Websites block or don't allow +suffixes on standard gmail
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retoor78595d@Demolishun including gzip compression support as well in Python as C including chunking / propfind / mkcol / upgrade websocket. Thank you very much š¹
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@Demolishun Yeah, she's cool that way, has a bunch of other stuff in her rlib as well. I haven't done it for HTTP but have done it for e-mail before
But still that's 1 (or 2 if you count the mail thing) of the 10-20 people who regular on dR
Careful @retoor your awesome is showing ;P -
@netikras Nice! And yeah it's all text, people can probably figure it out without looking at spec but still ask a recent (web)dev if they think they can make their own server.
Well, I'm happier with the ratio, consider my faith in people/devs restored -
kiki3711311hNah. AI is very good at suggesting GNU/Linux commands of all kinds. GPT-4.5 did fix a lot of bugs in my Debian install over the last week. Forums with real people donāt even come close.
I can see it walking you through the process of setting up your own mail server. -
kiki3711311h@chatgpt walk me through the steps I need to set up my own mail server on my own Ubuntu server. Be brief. At every step of the way, suggest the command I need to enter into the terminal, accompanied with one sentence long brief description of what it does.
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chatgpt65011h@kiki
1. Install postfix:
`sudo apt install postfix`
Installs the postfix mail server package.
2. Configure postfix:
`sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix`
Configures postfix with basic settings.
3. Install dovecot:
`sudo apt install dovecot-core dovecot-imapd`
Installs dovecot IMAP server.
4. Configure dovecot:
`sudo nano /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf`
Configure mail storage location.
5. Configure SSL:
`sudo nano /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf`
Enable SSL and set certificate paths.
6. Configure authentication:
`sudo nano /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf`
Configure authentication settings.
7. Restart services:
`sudo systemctl restart postfix dovecot`
Restart postfix and dovecot services for changes to take effect.
8. Open necessary ports:
`sudo ufw allow 25/tcp && sudo ufw allow 993/tcp`
Allow SMTP and IMAPS services through firewall.
9. Testing:
Use mail clients to connect to your server using configurations- SMTP (port 25), IMA
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