Why would you want a mail specific stack of hosting, storage, indexing and frontends? If it’s all plain text anyway so the regular storage solutions for files come a long way.
Because email has metadata. From, to, sent date, subject, etc. Plus attachments that may be binary.
Pdf? You converted plain text to something designed to preserve formatting? But why?
You could use maildir and find things with “grep” or any mail client like Thunderbird.
The data is relational. Spreadsheets are a pain to use for that.
LibreOffice Base seems like a good idea for something like this. SQL based with a UI to create forms, reports, etc.
It’s probably one of the few times it would be an appropriate tool to use!
As I mentioned in reply to another comment of yours, the main difference in my opinion here is that I am posting this as an individual one-man company compared to something like Oracle. And the Oracle free tier still requires you to sign-up and provide your data. This free version does not have such a commitment.
I don’t care who you are? Nor do I understand why that matters - it’s not you I dislike it’s your ads. You seem a decent fellow. The rules say “no spam” not “no spam unless you’re, like, a super-cool dude with an exciting new project!”
You’re welcome to create a xpipe@lemmy.world community for people who are interested in your product. It’s free to create and you can share all the up-to-date and exciting changes you’re making as much as you like.
You could also just downvote the posts you don’t want to see and move on, you don’t have to read my posts if you don’t like them.
I have. But this is never an effective strategy against fighting spam. Which is why I raised it as a question to the community.
Oracle’s cloud platform has an “always free” plan that self-hosters tend to use - yet I don’t think we’d accept Oracle posting monthly updates in this community. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this community should be for ads then?
If users were posting and discussing products that’s something else. That’s a community discussing things they find interesting or useful. Direct advertising is just self-serving. You can pretend it’s not - but we both know it is.
These XPipe posts have gone well beyond “I did a thing” and are starting to feel like I’ve subscribed for release updates that I can’t unsubscribe from for a product I will never use. So at this point it’s spam.
Edit: Well - I guess I could block you as a user - which I don’t really want to… But that seems to be the only option open to me.
That isn’t the question at all. It’s about whether we allow companies to market directly in this community. And apparently we do.
If you decided to devote all your time and energy to a project that was supposed to pay your bills, would you just sit and twiddle your thumbs thinking “if you build it, they will come”? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
No - I would shamelessly advertise it on every platform that let me. Which is what this person is doing. It’s a commercial product - they even call attention to that in their ad.
I would argue that all advertising is bad. This is a commercial product that the author has been sending near monthly updates to linux@ and selfhosting@ communities for some time.
At what point is this just advertising?
I like jbake. Create templates, pages are either html or markdown. Pretty easy to use.
I don’t think the networking part is part that needs solving. Modern AP/routers are pretty easy to configure and setup securely. Dunno - I’m definitely not in the target audience for what you’re doing though.
In what way do you think this article supports anything about the claim that “ssh can be broken into fairly easily”. It’s at best an argument for not using passwords with SSH, and at least for using very good passwords.
Which problem(s) are you trying to solve? The networking issue of firewalls and port forwarding? The admin tasks of installing and configuring applications? The task nobody does of maintaining software and keeping it up-to-date?
nixos scripts
What’s a nixos script?
Raspberry Pi is not a server. That people use it as one does not mean it’s fit for purpose.
SSH, especially password only ssh, can be broken into fairly easily.
WTF are you smoking? The tailscale propaganda is really getting crazy these days.
ssh is one of the most secure servers you can run. The tailscale propaganda is crazy in this community.
This community is like 90% tailscale shills.
rclone & restic work okay together to create backups in a Google drive mount. There are “issues” with backing up to Google drive since it doesn’t guarantee file names are unique which is… a choice… but it should be reliable enough.