Full-featured email server running OpenBSD
This blog post is a guide explaining how to setup a full-featured email server on OpenBSD 7.5. It was commissioned by a customer of my consultancy who wanted it to be published on my blog.
Setting up a modern email stack that does not appear as a spam platform to the world can be a daunting task, the guide will cover what you need for a secure, fun
https://www.osnews.com/story/140339/full-featured-email-server-running-openbsd/
#OpenBSD enthusiast cooks up guide for the technically timid 
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/openbsd_for_the_people/
Just booked my round-trip flights for EuroBSDCon in Dublin! With this step completed, I’d say everything is set, and I’m looking forward to attending this amazing event for the first time.
Taking this opportunity for #ThankYouTuesday to express my gratitude to the organizers ( @EuroBSDCon ) for their kindness and availability throughout the process.
I truly appreciate it!
#EuroBSDCon #Dublin #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #EuroBSDCon2024
Una entrada de un blog que me acabo de cruzar con algunas indicaciones para gente que se quiera iniciar en #openBSD como entorno de escritorio. Porque no todo el #softwareLibre es #Linux https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/
Because I don’t have a Linux system on my laptop anymore, I had to find a way to #multiboot #Windows and #OpenBSD without grub. This is were #rEFInd helped.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/multiboot-windows-and-openbsd-with-refind/
#OpenBSD Workstation for the People
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/
#openbsd not installing on your #virtualbox 7.0 machine?
Enable EFI
The boot UI will be horrible, but the machine won't randomly crash during the install.
TIL about vacation(1) on #OpenBSD
http://man.openbsd.org/vacation
Learned about it via a patch on tech@ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=172166999404303&w=2
#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian
Oh dear! How stupid people can be!
Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."
Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."
And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...
#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian
My OpenBSD web server runs since three weeks and does not use much of the available resources 😃 I also like that it has an integrated web server that supports all the things I need (HTTPS redirects, TLS and compression) AND only consist of one config file for the website configuration
It is an awesome choice for people who look for a minimal, lightweight and secure operating system for servers
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Only 60 days till THE European *BSD event of the year 2024! 😈⛳🐡
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Féach leat i mBaile Átha Cliath!!
EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
September 19-22, 2024
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024
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It has the text:
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Tell me about this Dublin trip.
Just released #borgbackup 2.0.0b9
Beta, do not use it for production backups! But please help testing by setting it up additionally to your prod backups.
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b9
#linux #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #openindiana #macOS #foss #backup
scavenging run
#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #openbsd #puffy #penguin #linux #fediart #mastoart #art #runbsd #purple
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Girl, Fish and Penguin walk home. Girl is carrying a paper bag filled with old motherboards, wires and pci cards.
Girl asks: "Do you ever wonder how much of this old tech was backdoored?"
Fish: "It all is."
Penguin: "what."
Something that is yet to come.
We have the tools, the standards, the years and years of research. The closest thing really is seL4 but this is not always an easy system to work with.
In a more "security for the rest of us", my closest choices would be #OpenBSD and #HardenedBSD or Linux with GRSecurity and PaX configured, but even then I would probably hesitate to deploy these in mission-critical environments.
Hardware accelerated video decode/encode (VA-API) support is beginning to land in #OpenBSD -current. 
libva has been integrated into xenocara with the Intel userland drivers in the ports tree. AMD requires Mesa support, hence the inclusion in base.
A number of ports will be adjusted to enable VA-API support over time, as they are tested.
rsadowski@ modified xenocara.lib/libva/*: Merge libva 2.22.0
Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API).
VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing.
It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor.Imported version is based on commit: 217da1c28336d6a7e9c0c4cb8f1c303968a675f1
https://github.com/intel/libvaThis work was created during the c2k24. With a lot of help and feedback from matthieu@, tb@, and martijn@.
AMD drivers tested by landry@, martijn@, kn@, op@ and a few more Intel driver tested by matthieu@ and me.
The Intel drivers can find in ports graphics/intel-media-driver and graphics/intel-vaapi-driver. (Depending on your hw)
The ports will be adjusted over time.
Everyone has reported fantastic performance results in Firefox or mpv(1).
OK matthieu@
Many thanks to @sizeofvoid for hacking on this at #c2k24! 
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Happy Birthday, BSD Cafe! 🎂Seeing your idea flourish into such a vibrant and supportive community is amazing. The positive atmosphere and mutual respect here are remarkable. It’s clear your hard work and vision have paid off.
You got me directly attracted last year on Twitter when I started with social medias and we shared exactly the same mindset - not only about #BSD related content but also about how a community around should look like. You got me back more into the community and into community related services and #opensource. I took the opportunity to create a service like #BoxyBSD for the BSD community, which provides free #VMs (#FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenSolaris, #illumos) for the community to learn, practice or to build their projects. Not everyone can afford own systems to learn in real setups and here we come back to the community mindset - which I honestly took over from you by providing us all your great services!
Getting in touch with all the members of the #BSDCafe it was clear that we need something like a meeting - so we got the #BSDPub, where we can meet, discuss and share knowledge. I feel like home here in the BSDCafe and I can only recommend everyone who's interested into BSD to join.
Wishing you many more successful years ahead. Thank you for everything!
It's a toss between OS/2 and #OpenBSD
Looks like #OpenBSD 7.6 will have VAAPI support for intel / amd hardware accelerated video encoding / decoding
thanks @sizeofvoid
How to install #OpenBSD and set up an #Xfce graphical desktop for newcomers.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/
If you like it better, there's a #Peertube video available here:
https://eggflix.foolbazar.eu/w/23tFBUygWvTDxdCKGrUDrP
More Breaking News!!
The schedule 📅 for the European *BSD event of the year 2024 is published! 😈⛳🐡
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Grab your 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org
EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
September 19-22, 2024
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024
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Always nice to check the bookcase and find something that past me bought despite having no real need for ... but future me is benefitting.
I'd bought @mwl's Absolute #OpenBSD 2nd ed back in 2013, because I'd just received my pre-ordered copy of @taosecurity's The Practice of Network Security Monitoring (thanks BTW) and in it was a 30% off voucher from No Starch Press. So I went looking for some worthy books to spend it on ...
Ironically, I never used the voucher in the end, because the shipping rates that No Starch had
available to them were awful for across-the-world shipping. Instead I got them at "normal" price via goodbooks (now defunct it appears) for less money and still probably not giving money to Amazon.
But regardless, over the last day or so I've benefitted from the book, as a handy reference for sysadmin tasks (like adding some new disk to my VM).
📖 📚
You don't need xorg to video-game on a 20 year old machine running OpenBSD.
ft: https://100r.co/site/oquonie.html
#oldcomputerchallenge #uxn #openbsd
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Photo of a T42 laptop running uxn emulator and the game oquonie.
There's a rabbit on pathway through void.
https://100r.co/site/oquonie.html
Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers are having a great time in Prague for the #c2k24 #hackathon this week! 🐡
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Puffy in Prague
At #EuroBSDcon 2024, I'll talk about using #OpenBSD on your workstation (desktop / laptop)
I know I said this post would come out weeks back, but I finally got time to publish 😛
"Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad"
pawn shop
#unix_surrealism #technomage #penguin #linux #openbsd #runbsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #comic #fediart #mastoart #foss #art
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It's Deb's Antiques. Lot of shelves with both useful and obscure stuff. Dead bugs, Parentheses, Boxes, ZX Spectrums, Compilers, CRT monitors...
Deb stands by its desk, looking at a list of things Puffy needs. There's a box with a rabbit inside.
Deb: "Mh... Let's check in the back..."
Puffy to Girl: "Wait here. Don't touch anything."
Girl shrugs.
She eyes the shelves. Purple Cassettes... Broken Glass... DANGEROUS?!
She reaches into the shelf and pulls out a green floppy with a 9 sticker.
The floppy is labeled:
"DO NOT INSTALL"
Girl: "Cool!"
If you run #OpenBSD and like playing games, I recommend checking out IndieRunner, which was committed to ports today. It was made by fellow OpenBSD developer Thomas Frohwein (thfr@), building upon his previous work for FNA titles (fnaify), adding support for multiple engines/runtimes.
https://github.com/IndieRunner/IndieRunner
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=172052833624484&w=2
Hey #OpenBSD people ...
What's the right way to approach a package in ports that is broken?
I'm looking for a "process" answer, not commands to execute, so I'm not naming the package :-)
If you install it with pkg_add, it will sigsegv when executed. This is because of an outdated library in the build. Upstream have committed the patches to their latest version that fix the problem; if I compiled from source the binary would be just fine.
But I want this machine to live for a long time, and upgrade itself properly every release. So I'm motivated to use the ports to provide this program, aren't I?
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#openbsd dhcpleased(8)
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summer
#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #glibc #summer #fediart #monochrome #openbsd #linux #runbsd
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Girl is hacking. Puffy floats over.
Puffy: "Girl.. Some friends came to see you."
Girl goes see the friends. It's M, Baby-Daemon and Baby-Penguin.
M: "We're going to throw rocks down the old quarry and look for glibc vulnerabilities. Wanna come?"
I will be honest, though: this is perhaps the last straw that will push me to finally adopt #openbsd everywhere. 
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Wrote a tiny post about fixing Jekyll issues on my OpenBSD machine (dart-sass related)
"Fixing Jekyll's dart-sass Dependency on OpenBSD"
https://btxx.org/posts/Fixing_Jekyll__39__s_dart-sass_Dependency_on_OpenBSD/
How to mount ISO or file disk images on OpenBSD by @solene
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-15-mount-iso-file-openbsd.html
Having fun reading @solene's blog 🙂
#OpenBSD #security #VPN #statelessness
boostedOnly a couple of hours left to get a discounted ticket for THE European *BSD event of the year 2024! 😈⛳🐡
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The tutorial 📅 schedule is already published to get a feel of the topics being presented.
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EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
September 19-22, 2024
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024
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Grab that early bird 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org
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The tutorial 📅 schedule is already published to get a feel of the topics being presented.
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EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
September 19-22, 2024
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024
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It has the text:
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1 day left.
Woah! https://fossy.us accepted my #OpenBSD talk about fw_update(8)!
I love getting such mails! Thanks a lot for shipping them @mischa@exquisite.social & @OpenBSDAms@bsd.network!
PS: Just have a look at the stamp ❤️
#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #BSDCafe #BSDNetwork #BSDPub #OpenBSDAms #OpenBSDAmsterdam #BSDCommunity #Community
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#signal client Gurk [1] compiles and seems to run fine on #OpenBSD (I did not try to connect as I'm not a Signal user).
You can give it a try with:
- doas pkg_add rust gmake protobuf
- cargo install --git https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs gurk
Run ~/.cargo/bin/gurk
Thanks to jsing@, #OpenBSD's Go port (lang/go) now supports branch tracking control flow integrity (BTCFI) and enabled it by default on arm64/amd64, for Intel 11th Gen+ and Apple M2.
jsing@ modified ports/lang/go/*: Add branch tracking control flow integrity (BTCFI) support to lang/go.
This adds BTCFI support to lang/go on arm64 (in the form of BTI) and amd64 (in the form of IBT). Resulting Go binaries are no longer marked with OPENBSD_NOBTCFI.
Thanks to sthen@ and tb@ for testing.
ok tb@
And _MODGO_SYSTEM_VERSION has been bumped to force recompiling of Go packages.
Bump _MODGO_SYSTEM_VERSION due to lang/go BTCFI support.
Also remove USE_NOBTCFI, since this is no longer the case on amd64 and arm64 (the flag is still set on other architectures for the time being, but this is ineffective).
ok sthen@
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#BoxyBSD is now sponsoring the open-source project: Game of Trees
#GameofTrees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility and mainly targeting #OpenBSD users.
Project: https://gameoftrees.org
CC: @thomasadam @stsp @gyptazy
Tags: #opensource #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #GoT #gameOfTrees #VCS
#BoxyBSD is now sponsoring the open-source project: Telescope
#Telescope is a w3m-like browser for #Gemini.
Project: https://telescope.omarpolo.com
CC: @thomasadam @op @gyptazy
Tags: #opensource #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #gemini #gem #capsule #gemcapusle #geminicapsule #geminiprotocol #gopher
Since desktop environments can always change and many new releases came out since last year, I would like to know which desktop environment you currently use?
#gnome #kdeplasma #xfce4 #cinnamondesktop #matedesktop #budgiedesktop #lxqt #linuxdesktop #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd
* Multiple choices possible
| GNOME: | 45 |
| KDE Plasma: | 27 |
| Xfce: | 16 |
| MATE: | 6 |
| LXQt: | 1 |
| Cinnamon: | 7 |
| Budgie: | 2 |
| I use a window manager btw.: | 15 |
| I like cookies: | 8 |
@q3k I really like #OpenBSD's approach. Usually, you configure network interfaces in a file called /etc/hostname.<if> where <if> is the name of the interface.
To avoid the renaming problem, you can also name the file /etc/hostname.XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX so it's bound to the MAC address.
More details in https://man.openbsd.org/hostname.if
I'm thrilled to announce that my talk for EuroBSDcon 2024 has been accepted! I am incredibly happy and honored. It will be a fantastic experience. Thank you to the team for your trust!
#EuroBSDcon #TechConference #OpenSource #BSDCommunity #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD
Hostname ideas for my next #OpenBSD install (need to get back to this project soon, seriously!):
puffythewindowsslayer
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Friends of the #BSDCafe, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD enthusiasts and the entire #Fediverse,
Curious about #BoxyBSD?
Join Florian - @gyptazy - as he dives into its creation, architecture, and community support.
Perfect for BSD beginners and pros alike!
📅 10/06/2024
🔗 Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEHL4skVq3U
🔗 More about BoxyBSD: https://boxybsd.com
🔗 More about the BSD Cafe: https://bsd.cafe
#BoxyBSD #BSD #OpenSource #VirtualMachines #BSDCafe #BSDCafeVideo #BSDPub #IT #VM #SysAdmin #RunBSD
OpenBSD is an awesome operating system in my opinion. It simply works after installation and you have things like apmd (power management and energy saving) and vmm (hypervisor) already integrated. I tried it out on my TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro and everything works fine including Wifi and X11. You even have an integrated display manager called xenodm 😃
T-3 days... https://events.eurobsdcon.org/
#CfP #Dublin #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024
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Mike Karels' family would like to hear from the #BSDCan community about what he meant to us.
The FreeBSD Foundation has set up a page to collect remembrances. If you worked with Mike, please put a few sentences at https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/.
The remembrances will be printed out and read at his service.
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OpenSSH tightens security with a new feature that aims to stop attackers in their tracks with smart penalties.
https://linuxiac.com/openssh-enhances-security-with-new-feature/
#ssh #openssh #security #openbsd
My wife says that the BSDs are always in my head...
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD
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A man with short brown hair and a receding hairline (me) is seated at a wooden table with his arms crossed and a smile on his face. He is wearing a light blue button-up shirt and a wristwatch. On his forehead, he has a sticker with the FreeBSD logo, which features a red devil mascot and the text "FreeBSD". The background is plain with some dark-colored chairs and a partially visible brick wall.
Good morning #FreeBSD, #NetBSD & #OpenBSD fans!
The #BoxyBSD service is live for quite a while and it got a little bit silent - things just run and work. Are you missing anything?
Do you have any wishes that could help you to boost up your personal knowledge or your opensource project?
cc: @gyptazy
tags: #BSD #hosting #proxmox #bhyve #opensource #bsdcafe #bsdnetwork #bsdfriends #bsdpub #community #fediverse #hosting
We just wrapped up another fascinating session of the #BSDPub meeting. We discussed Mike Karels, the release of FreeBSD 14.1, #Freedive, cats against technology, #Pilldroid, GPL and BSD licenses, some intriguing ideas to attract more users to the BSD world, and a couple of interesting presentations to deliver. Thanks to everyone who participated, and... Stay tuned!
#FreeBSD #BSDCommunity #OpenSource #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #TechTalk #SoftwareDevelopment #TechCommunity
New, minor update to barf (the tiny blog generator!). Mostly small, nice QoL changes
"Quality of Life Improvements"
OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files - by @solene
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-27-openbsd-wg-quick-converter.html
BSD celebrity death [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.
https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels
This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.
If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.
RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.
What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws
[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site 
]
Today, I revamped my blog theme ( https://it-notes.dragas.net ) and moved it to @OpenBSDAms VPS, powered by httpd.
BunnyNet stands as the CDN upfront, can we still consider it hosted on OpenBSD? 🤔
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#OpenBSD -current now has a DHCPv6-PD implementation in base!
florian@ modified src/sbin/dhcp6leased: Import dhcp6leased(8)
dhcp6leased is a daemon to manage IPv6 prefix delegations. It requests a prefix from an upstream DHCPv6 server and configures downstream network interfaces. rad(8) can be used to advertise available prefixes to clients.
It's a transmogrified dhcpleased(8), so it's a bit rough around the edges. But it can already request and renew prefixes and configure interfaces. It's time to hack on it in-tree.
OK deraadt
Previously it was necessary to install e.g: dhcpcd from ports/packages.
I updated my Tor/I2P guide and proxy for #OpenBSD mirrors to support firmware.
Firmware files are downloaded from the hardcoded server firmware.openbsd.org, the hostname would have to be disabled using /etc/hosts and depending if you are using #tor or #i2p , I explain how to install or update firmware files.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-05-25-openbsd-privacy-friendly-mirror.html#_Firmware_mirror