schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Search results for tag #smtp

[?]marc0s »
@marcos@social.tenak.net

As of today, #gmail seems to be rejecting all emails from my server because of its "low reputation". All MX tools online say my server is OK (SPF, DMARC), my IP isn't in any blacklist, and I already have set up the TXT DNS records for Google's Postmaster.

Any idea on how to proceed?

These big providers are a PITA for self hosters 🤬

#smtp #spam #mx #FediHelp #selfhosting

    [?]Jan Schaumann »
    @jschauma@mstdn.social

    System Administration

    Week 8, HTTPS & TLS

    After discussing HTTP in the previous week and seeing how we used STARTTLS in the context of , we are now quickly reviewing HTTPS, TLS, and the WebPKI. While we don't have a video segment for this, here are slides, including this handy diagram illustrating the CSR process:

    stevens.netmeister.org/615/08-

      [?]Jan Schaumann »
      @jschauma@mstdn.social

      System Administration

      Week 8, The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

      Shared by a student of mine: Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things, a talk given by Dylan Beattie at NDC Oslo 2023. Covers a lot of our materials and adds some additional context.

      youtu.be/mrGfahzt-4Q

        [?]Jan Schaumann »
        @jschauma@mstdn.social

        System Administration

        Week 8, The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

        In this video, we begin our discussion of E-Mail by looking at the components of the larger mail system (the Mail User Agent, Mail Transfer Agent, Mail Delivery Agent, Access Agent); we observe the packets involved in a simple exchange and track an email from one system to the other, both through the logs and on the wire, before we then learn to speak SMTP via telnet(1).

        youtu.be/Ai8rjqelwsI

          [?]Jan Schaumann »
          @jschauma@mstdn.social

          System Administration

          Week 8, The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Part II

          In this video, we observe the incoming mail on our MTA, look at how STARTTLS can help protect information in transit, how MTA-STS can help defeat a MitM performing a STARTTLS-stripping attack, and how DANE can be used to verify the authenticity of the mail server's certificate.

          youtu.be/RgEiAOKv640

            [?]Jan Schaumann »
            @jschauma@mstdn.social

            System Administration

            Week 8, The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Part III

            In this video, we look at ways to combat Spam. In the process, we learn about email headers, the Sender Policy Framework (), DomainKeys Identified Mail (), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (). doesn't seem quite so simple any more...

            youtu.be/KwCmv3GHGfc