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Running servers at home like an absolute lunatic

The manpage for saslauthd

Fixing SMTP timeout issues

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I’ve recently been having a problem with my mailserver. I could receive mail fine, but trying to send would frequently time out, whether it was me sending email manually from my mail client or services on the same box as postfix. The fact that the problem was limited to SMTP led me to suspect that…

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TrueNAS Scale dashboard

Let’s talk about backups.

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There are two kinds of people: those who have lost data, and those who will. I’m one of those who have lost data, so I’m going to take a moment to tell you how I go about avoiding that. What’s brought this on, you might ask? Blame Mike. We were just talking about data loss…

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