Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz: >> So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private >> hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not >> mos

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
>> > That's debateable, DOS sure, but you have much greater control and speed >> > of access with a local mail server and past mail will still be >> > accessible during any attack. >> I wasn't referring to DOS/DDOS-style reliability. In my mind, >> reliability ~= uptime > 99.999% >> Of course, you'

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-13 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> My other option is to host my own mail server, either at home or on a >> VPS (which would cost more), >> which means much lowered reliability, which means much lowered >> reliability > > Sending to you directly as this mail was rejected by

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-12 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
>From the responses I've received, I gather the following: - Crypto is only going to get me so far, unless I can coerce all incoming email to use TLS - Until I have a steady income, my best bet is to use Google Apps for my domain and to download all incoming mail - probably deleting it from Googl

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Reading through the responses, I find that my previous evaluation of my options was correct. The most reliable and easiest solution, by far, would be to set up a standard account, and to download a copy of all emails. The only problems with this are the lack of control and privacy. My other option

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:29 PM, phanisvara wrote: > On Thursday 11 Oct 2012 18:18:10 Menachem Moystoviz wrote: >> Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - >> can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. >> Sounds good. Will only hav

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. Sounds good. Will only have to figure out how to get money... Gesh

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Menachem Moystoviz, Thu 2012-10-11 @ 13:23:32+0200: >> Which do you suggest? Do you have an alternative? > > I use Postfix + Dovecot on an Arch Linux Linode VPS and I'm pretty happy > with it. > > >> 2)

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
> I do a combination of #1 and #2. > > I have a (cheap!) web hosting account (with Dreamhost) which also provides > me with an email address on their mail system. I have the DNS entries for > my domain point to Dreamhost, so any mail for my domain gets delivered > there. > > But I only use Dreamho

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Thank you. The questions posed were quite enlightening, and showed me that this needs a bit more thought. > I believe first question you need to answer is: what is your threat model? > > Are you afraid of losing all your mails (backups)? Losing control over > your email address? What are you going

[arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
Recently, my paranoia levels have been ratcheted up by reading about companies' treatment of their users, along with an increasing awareness of my powerlessness with respect to most content providers. I therefore curbed most online activity and have attempted to host those services I used on my own

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2012-10-10 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 10.10.2012 09:27, schrieb Dimitri Sabadie: >> Hi, >> >> I want to contribute as a developper, but I don’t know where to begin. I >> subscribe to the bug tracker and found an issue I really wanna fix : >> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/tas

Re: [arch-general] secondary dns with zone transfer

2012-08-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > is there any free secondary dns provider that supports zone transfer? > BTW: well, this is kind of off topic as it hasn't to do with arch, but help > is needed... :P > thanks in advance! > > -- > (\_ /) copy the bunny to

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 21:47:14 Norbert Zeh wrote: >> I tried to keep my mouth shut but can't resist to reply here because I >> simply don't understand how you think the world works. Do you want to see >> proof that every piece of open-

Re: [arch-general] dovecot postfix + mysql

2012-08-21 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jean-Luc Bassereau wrote: > Le Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:54:37 +0300 > Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> nope :( >> take a look, /var/log/mail.log: >> Aug 21 15:21:28 localhost postfix/smtpd[6461]: disconnect from >> x.google.com[xxx..xxx.xxx] >

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-04 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 03.08.2012 17:55, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: >> I'll try to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage >> and the wiki page. > > Wait for the next pacman version because all this VCS code is bein

Re: [arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-03 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
ry to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage and the wiki page. Regards, M On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:37 PM, arielp wrote: > On 8/3/2012 6:56 AM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: >> >> I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. >>

[arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

2012-08-03 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. >From what Allan said on this mailing list a couple of days ago, custom support is being added to makepkg. In addition, from what I can see on the wiki and manpages, the only variable influencing the versioning is pkgver. However, from

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-28 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
As far as I can tell from the systemd blog and people's reactions here, the only advantages systemd offers are: - Splitting the configuration files, which increases the robustness of the configuration files - Daemon supervision - Bootup speedup by parallelizing the daemons. However, from the respon

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. >>> >>> well

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC, after the fact] initscripts config

2012-07-24 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:46:52 +0200 > Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Yclept Nemo wrote: >> > 3) Personally this depends on the final rc.conf, is [1] or [2] going >> > to be it? >> > [1] >> > http://projects.archlin