Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Response below/inline for email Jonathan Dowland wrote: > (original email sent 6 Feb 2025 at 17:52) > > On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM GMT, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with >> Koreader as well? > > It does, yes. > > I followed the following bl

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM GMT, Eric S Fraga wrote: Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with Koreader as well? It does, yes. I followed the following blog post: -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Response below/inline for email Dan Ritter wrote: > (original email sent 5 Feb 2025 at 11:47) > > Koreader is happy to read from the filesystem, so sure. > > But what I have setup is a combo of two things: > > - an OPDS server to hand out books Thank you for this. I used to use calibre as an OP

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Eric S Fraga wrote: > Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote: > > (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10) > > > > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my > > Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? > > +1 > > Sounds great. I would love to ha

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote: > (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10) > > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my > Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? +1 Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with Koreader

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > One thing I like about the Kobo is how hackable it is. I've got > syncthing on mine, so to add a book to it I merely have to copy the file > to my local folder, and syncthing does the rest. > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my Kobo Fo

hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM GMT, Tom Browder wrote: But, can your Kobo reader handle the Kindle format? What model do you recommend? Chiming in: I love my Kobo Libra 2, which I think is now discontinued and replaced with the Kobo Libra Colour. It cannot read the kindle format natively (mo

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Tom Browder wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 19 lines --] > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:10 Chris Green wrote: > > > ... > > > > Has anyone been able to buy the ebook and convert it to Kindle > > > satisfactorily? > > > > > No, it's one of the reasons I use Kobo readers,

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On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:10 Chris Green wrote: > ... > > Has anyone been able to buy the ebook and convert it to Kindle > > satisfactorily? > > > No, it's one of the reasons I use Kobo readers, they are much more > friendly to standard format e-publishing. Thank you very much, Chris--that's w

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Tom Browder wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 18 lines --] > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 12:37 Thomas Anderson < > thomas.ander...@little-beak.com> wrote: > > > I also belong to the group of long time mailserver owners. I started it > > ... > > I just bought the hard copy of

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 12:37 Thomas Anderson < thomas.ander...@little-beak.com> wrote: > I also belong to the group of long time mailserver owners. I started it ... I just bought the hard copy of the new book. I use Kindle also and would love to buy it, but the author doesn't sell his books in t

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I also belong to the group of long time mailserver owners. I started it way back at Debian 8, and upgraded along the way. The biggest time requirement was at the beginning, setting up every thing properly. Since then, I have had almost no problems at all, that couldn't be solved reasonably quic

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On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:28:47PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: I have been running my own inbound and outbound mail servers for over 30 years using ISP connections. The only time I ran into trouble was with gmail recently and only because of mismatched SPF records for a domain I host. You're

Re: SMTP servers

On 2/1/25 18:15, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The review (worth reading) opens with "The most common piece of advice given to users who ask about running their own mail server is don't." I have been running my own inbound and outbound mail servers for over 30 years using ISP connections. The on

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LWN recently reviewed a new self-published book, "run your own mailserver": The review (worth reading) opens with "The most common piece of advice given to users who ask about running their own mail server is don't." I'd pretty much concur with that advice,

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:00:24 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >A&A has an excellent reputation, but rather high prices. High prices for what? £25pcm is what I pay for 'net access using A&A. Anyone else wants *at least* £29pcm - (possibly a 6 month budget price to start) with a minimum 18 month cont

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Hi, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 06:12:47PM +, mick.crane wrote: > I have various email accounts, the web hosting, a paid for one, the gmail, > the ISP one. Probably at least one of those comes with an SMTP server for sending mail out, so probably just use that and always set your from address to

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> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM > From: "mick.crane" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: SMTP servers > > hello > I'm not really understanding the internet. > Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without > having the device open to random inte

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:51:34 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, mick.crane wrote: > > > hello > > I'm not really understanding the internet. > > Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place > > without having the device open to random internet connections?

Re: SMTP servers

On 2024-12-29 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 17:25:40 +, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? Are you envisio

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Hi, On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 06:02:33PM +, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-12-29 17:38, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > You can first place your SMTP server behind a firewall to block the > > undesirable ports. > > Second, your SMTP may allow to specify the port you desire to use. This > > the case with e

Re: SMTP servers

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:25:40 + "mick.crane" wrote: > hello > I'm not really understanding the internet. > Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place > without having the device open to random internet connections? > Yes, though it's becoming harder. You need a fixed IP

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On 2024-12-29 17:38, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, On 29/12/2024 18:25, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? You can first place your SM

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On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 18:38:10 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Second, your SMTP may allow to specify the port you desire to use. This the > case with exim4. You can listen on any port you like, but if people want to send email to you, they will try to connect to you on TCP port 25. There is no

Re: SMTP servers

Hello, On 29/12/2024 18:25, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? You can first place your SMTP server behind a firewall to block the un

Re: SMTP servers

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 17:25:40 +, mick.crane wrote: > hello > I'm not really understanding the internet. > Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without > having the device open to random internet connections? Are you envisioning mail as "outgoing only", with nobod

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, mick.crane wrote: hello I'm not really understanding the internet. Can I do my own SMTP server and send mail off to the right place without having the device open to random internet connections? mick Yes, but in practice many places won't accept mail from most home IPs