Hello Ajith Sir,
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 08:03:50PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
> I am just trying to set up various services on a digitalocean
>droplet. At present a web server, Moodle LMS and Bigbluebutton video
>conferencing server are running. The site is at https://scischool.in/ , the
>objectives are mentioned there.
>Like to try a mail server , like postfix. Any help in that direction would
>be very useful.
Setting up mail servers are proving to be very challenging these days
due to two reasons:
1. There are many parts (more on this later)
2. The mails from the server often get rejected as spam. This needs a
bit of work.
There are two information that would be useful:
1. Are you setting up the mail server on the same droplet as moodle?
2. What do you intend to do with it?
Mail Server Components
----------------------
A mail server has several components. Postfix is just one. You will need
to install and configure all of them. There are turnkey solutions
available and they are described later.
1. Mail Transfer Agent (MTA): Postfix is an MTA. This is used to send
out mails.
2. Mail signer: OpenDKIM is used to sign mails. Unsigned mails are just
dropped by most receiving servers.
3. Mail Delivery Agent: Dovecot. This is used to receive mails. You
don't need this if you just want to send out mails (like from moodle).
You'll need it if you want to hand out user accounts and receive mails.
4. Spam filter: SpamAssasin or RSpamd
5. Web Client: Roundcube, Sogo etc. One of this is needed if you need to
have webmail.
Turn-key solutions
------------------
Configuration of all these parts well is a bit of a challenge. Most of
us prefer to use turnkey solutions. Some are:
1. Mail in a Box (https://mailinabox.email/). Mail in a box needs a VM
of its own.
2. Mailu (https://mailu.io/1.7/). Can run in docker
3. Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/). Can run in docker
If none of these solutions are viable, there are deployment scripts
(mostly ansible) that allow you to deploy them remotely and
automatically.
Manual configuration is still possible, but is very involved. It can be
used if none of the above are viable.
Server Reputation
-----------------
None of these measures ensure that your mails wont be dropped by another
server as spam. This needs more work.
1. Blacklisted IP and domains: You need to make sure that your IP
address and domain are not blacklisted. It's possible to get them
whitelisted.
2. Reverse DNS: You should set R-DNS for your server. Not very hard on
Digital Ocean.
3. DKIM, SPF, DMARC: These are standards used to reassure other servers
that your server is trustworthy.
Despite all these, they do get often dropped - especially by Google
(gmail, gsuite) and Microsoft (hotmail, office365). It's just a game of
patience - getting your mails marked as not spam by others.
These are the intial information I can offer you. Let us get to know
your specific requirements and we can come up with some solution.
Regards,
Gokul Das B
Hi everyone,
Based on our discussion today in video conference, I encourage everyone
to share your vim, neovim or emacs configuration here. These are great
editors that are as powerful as any IDE. For many including me, they are
the center of digital life. Infact, I am typing this mail on Neovim with
format=flow method. Share any additional info or interesting information
about your editor too.
Here is my Neovim configuration:
- Plugin manager: junegunn/vim-plug
- Completion and language support: neoclide/coc.nvim
- Language highlighting: sheerun/vim-polyglot
- Formatting: sbdchd/neoformat
- Make/Build: neomake/neomake
- Clipboard: christoomey/vim-system-copy
- Status line: vim-airline/vim-airline
- File browser: preservim/nerdtree
- Icons: ryanoasis/vim-devicons
- Table formatting: dhruvsagar/vim-table-mode
- Git integration: tpopt/vim-fugitive
- Markdown preview: euclio/vim-markdown-composer
- Theme: dracula/vim
There are custom keybindings, integration with TMux, editor
configurations etc. Here are some of the ways I used neovim:
1. Programming in multiple languages with autocompletion and linting
- Autoformat and build is also available
- Code folding using fold markers
2. Create email like this
3. Edit markdown with live HTML preview (no need to even save)
- Table mode allows live auto format of tables
4. Manage my system configs and dotfiles
Let me know what you folks think and of any questions you have. Don't
forget about posting your own configurations and cool concepts.
Regards,
Gokul Das B (goku12)
This is a forwarded email from Praveen.
/
/
/Hi, //
/
/Today we had a good discussion with new ICFOSS director Sabarish K and
the discussions are still continuing at //#icfoss:matrix.org//matrix
channel. //
/
/Sabarish K: frame a guideline for funding, fixing criteria Naveenpf:
community grants can be split as //
/
/1. Project grant/
/2. Events and Travel grant //
/
/Project grant proposals can be invited once in a month in a year. //
/
/Events and travel grant proposal invited anytime. //
/
/Grants committee should be formed with community members. All depends
on yearly budget for community grant./
/Structure for fund expenditure reporting template should be in place.
(can be reused from wikimedia grants reporting)/
/Hrishi: Adding to this, Travel support can be of two types./
/1. Grants //
/
/2. interestless loans //
/
/The second one should be easy to work out. Few years back I was in need
of a travel support when I had an opportunity to present one of my
projects in a prestigious event abroad. The organizers were reimbursing
the travel expenses but I had to advance it to make the arrangements. I
tried to get support from many such govt programs (including startup
mission) in vain. If such a travel support can be arranged, it is not an
expense per say. As the candidate will repay it when she gets the
reimbursement. //
/
/Sabarish K: This is a good suggestion, biggest task before me is to
frame meticulously charted guidelines for each of the external funding
progs. Otherwise it may be the Next Story of Nepotism.. //
/
/Navenpdf: Open proposals, community endorsements, diverse grant
committee and open reporting will help //
/
/
/
/You can see his responses to our demands we send to last ICFOSS
director here
//https://pad.disroot.org/p/ICFOSS_New_Director_Response_To_Old_Points//If
you'd like to volunteer to be part of this team to draft guidelines for
funding from ICFOSS, please reply. //
/
/We can send him the list of people volunteered in a week's time (by
next Wednesday 22nd July. There are also other promises from him like
funding font development which I hope someone will take up. See the pad
linked above or join the matrix group to see all the points. //
/
/Thanks //
/
/Praveen/
Please express your responses in the matrix group /#icfoss:matrix.org/.
With Regards,
Athul
Hello,
We are students from College of Engineering, Pune and are organizing an event, FOSSMEET, to promote the adoption, development and philosophy of Free Software and Open Source Software. With two successful editions already under the belt, we are back with the third edition of COEP FOSSMEET. Arranging talks and conducting hands-on workshops has been a proven way to transform students and developers alike into FOSS enthusiasts (possible contributors!). To make it possible, who better to call upon than FOSS aficionados?
If you are intrigued about COEP FOSSMEET or would be interested in carrying out a workshop/talk, under the banner of FOSSMEET’20, do visit our website: foss.coep.org.in/fossmeet. The process to submit a proposal is to fill the form under the “Call for Talks” tab and submit your proposal. The deadline for same is 20th February.
We hope to see you at COEP, if not as a speaker then as a participant. For any queries, feel to free to contact us as well.
Hello.
There will be a Debian booth at the upcoming DevConf India (
https://devconf.info/in/2019) 2019 conference.
"DevConf.IN is the annual Developers' Conference organized by Red Hat in
India. It is meant to provide a platform to the local FOSS community
participants to come together and engage in knowledge sharing through
technical talks, workshops, panel discussions, hackathon and such
activities."
So far two people agreed to volunteer in the booth. It'll be lovely if
some more people can join. There are plenty of opportunities for you to
help like answering questions from visitors, help in selling goodies
(haven't decided), bring some goodies yourself to the booth.
If you have a Debian standee banner (or design) and debian stickers
please contact.
Otherwise, If you are attending the DevConf, please pass by the booth.
--abhijith
Folks, we have been running poddery.com for last 6 years, started as a diaspora pod, with xmpp and matrix added later, all using the same username and password.
When a lot of computing moved to "cloud", we have to step up our game to have Free Software based services and collective control.
Since social media has network effect (you have to use the services used by your friends), it is much harder to get people to switch, though technically it is much simpler compared to GNU/Linux installation in the early days.
It is fully funded and managed by the Free Software Community of India. I'm part of the team that runs this service. Now we need your help to make our third crowd funding campaign successful. Contribute and share the campaign. https://fund.poddery.com/
Dear members,
We are celebrating International Open Data Day 2019 by arranging Awareness on Open Data, Introduction to Wikidata Commons and Openstreetmap Mapathon on 2nd March 2019 Saturday at Museum lawn, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram in association with FSUG TVM, Wikimedians Kerala Group, which is technically supported by ICFOSS. We request participation for each and everyone in the community.
For more details, visit FSUG TVM Website.
Please find the poster attached with this email.
With Regards,
Athul R T
contact: 9809702513
athul(a)disroot.org
Dear members,
We are celebrating International Open Data Day 2019 by arranging Awareness on Open Data, Introduction to Wikidata Commons and Openstreetmap Mapathon on 2nd March 2019 Saturday at Museum lawn, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram in association with FSUG TVM, Wikimedians Kerala Group, which is technically supported by ICFOSS. We request participation for each and everyone in the community.
For more details, visit FSUG TVM Website. (http://tvm.fsug.in/)
Please find the poster attached with this email.
With Regards,
Athul R T
contact: 9809702513
athul(a)disroot.org (mailto:athul@disroot.org)
Dear members,
We are celebrating International Open Data Day 2019 by arranging Awareness on Open Data, introduction to wikidata Commons and Openstreetmap Mapathon in association with FSUG TVM, Wikimedians Kerala Group, which is technically supported by ICFOSS. We request participation for each and everyone in the community.
For more details, visit FSUG TVM Website. (http://tvm.fsug.in/)
Please find the poster attached with this email.
With Regards,
Athul R T
contact: 9809702513
athul(a)disroot.org
Greetings,
India Linux Users Group Delhi[1], Mozilla Delhi/NCR[2], and all Debian Enthusiasts in Delhi are organizing 3nd edition of DebUtsav - DebUtsav Delhi[3] on March 9th and 10th, 2019.
DebUtsav Delhi's CFP[4] is now OPEN. If you are interested in talking a session or sharing about something cool you have been working on in the free and open source community please submit a proposal.
DebConf is the annual Debian conference which is held in a different country every year. DebConf19 will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, from July 21 to July 29, 2019. MiniDebConfs are local meetings organized by Debian project members to achieve similar objectives to those of the DebConf, but on a regional context. When majority of talks are not Debian specific, it is called DebUtsav - celebration of Free Software by Debian community. DebUtsav Delhi will be happening on March 9th and 10th, 2019. You are invited to attend the event and participate in all the sessions you like, attendance is FREE of cost. Venue will soon be announced on the website.
[1] https://www.linuxdelhi.org/
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/India/Delhi
[3] https://debutsav.in/
[4] https://events.fsci.org.in/conference/debutsavdelhi
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https://shanky.xyz
