Shimitar

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I only used OpenWRT on netgear (arm) hardware... So for x86 I have no idea, but they have great forums you can lurk or inquire...

It should support all WiFi chipsets supported by Linux.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

opnSense and WiFi don't play too well due to limited BSD WiFi support.

OpenWRT is a much better choice for an AP.

At least make sure the WiFi on the minipc is supported by opnSense before attempting that...

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 6 months ago

I guess Wife Acceptance Factor, the number one parameter in home self host.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 6 months ago

The risk is that the IP will get banned AFTER you start sending out mail from it because it has zero reputation... IT happened to me too and it took months, if not years, to get it definitely cleared. And if you neighbour with a similar IP get infected and start spamming, it's all over again. This is the main issue with residential IPs, it's a very real issue.

To get around it, rent a VPS with a non residential IP and front the mail server there, with tunnels (wireguard+nft) back to your home mail server, so at least the public facing IP is good or has less risks or being blacklisted.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Use OpenWRT and enable Fast Transitioning, works perfectly.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Self hosting email is a difficult business.

The main issue is that you must have a static IP and that IP needs to have a good mail reputation or you will be blacklisted in a few days.

Said so, Today there are pretty good selfhostable email stacks like stalwart

My solution, which has been running for over two decades, is bare metal with postfix, dovecot, opendkim, opendmarl, spamassassin and a few more poeces which are all absolutely mandatory. Plus a nice webmail and a few more optional pieces.

But on gentoo, not on nix

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I am saying good new things, good old things, why not take the opportunity to migrate? Its fun.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 6 months ago

I tought so... Nothing bad with using iptables, just there is a better guy on the block, was wondering.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why still using iptables today?

Nftables has been the way to go for quite a while...

But I see you use docker, maybe that's why.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 6 months ago

Gentoo.

Daily automatic updates of the OS.

Services and containers are updated at random when i have time.

Its been many years, I have fun doing it.

Not a chore.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 6 months ago

Then post into #mildlydepressed :)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Its never late for that!

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