Notes on Doveadm
Some quick notes for myself about using doveadm and managing mailboxes.
More issues
Self Hosted: Episode 8 - External Services
Software Used:
* OpenBSD 7.7
Overview
Now that we have some services in our self hosted environment, we may want to allow access from outside our environment. The question is how do we allow this connectivity for ourselves (and anyone else we choose) but not allow the world at large?
Self Hosted: Episode 7 - Email
Software Used:
* OpenBSD 7.7 (as VM)
* OpenSMTPD (part of OS)
* Dovecot 2.3.21.1 (from ports)
* RoundcubeMail 1.6.11 (from ports)
* twofactor_webauthn 1.3.0
Overview
Email is a surprisingly vast and charged topic. It is one of the first services that someone/anyone can deploy
Self Hosted: Episode 6 - Authentication
Software used:
* FreeBSD 14.2 (jail)
* OpenLDAP 2.6 (from ports)
It has been said: "Three people can keep a secret, if two are dead." Fortunately, it doesn't need to come to that.
Authentication
As with many things in computing there needs to be a source
Self Hosted: Episode 5 - Logging
Software Used:
* FreeBSD 14.2 (jail)
Introduction
If you can't observe what is happening then you can't find and fix what is broken
Setting up a logging server at this point may seem premature. But as we move forward, things will get more complicated and more
Self Hosted: Episode 4 - Certificates
Software used:
* FreeBSD 14.2 (jail)
* Step CA 0.28.1 (from ports)
Introduction
If it isn't DNS... then it's certificates!
Certificates are simple... but it's complicated!
Certificates themselves are very simple... ignoring the all the crypto algorithms, hashes, etc. They are just two
Self Hosted: Episode 3 - DNS/DHCP/NTP
Used Software:
* FreeBSD 14.2 (as jail)
* ISC Bind 9.2.0 (from ports)
* ISC DHCP 4.4 (from ports)
Introduction
It all begins with DNS...
Building the Jail environment
The DNS/DHCP server will be built using a FreeBSD jail. This is done for several reason. First, FreeBSD Jails
Self Hosting: Episode 2 - Firewall
Software Used:
* OpenBSD 7.7
Introduction
The firewall will separate the segments and provide protection for services that must cross the segment boundaries. To that end firewall will have several interfaces. To keep rules as manageable as possible we will treat all hosts behind each segment/interface the same. This
Self Hosting: Episode 1 - Hypervisor
Software Used:
* FreeBSD 14.2
* Sanoid/Syncoid 2.3.0
Introduction
Before we can deploy any services we need two things. First a place to store those services and two a place to run those services from (i.e storage and compute). These two requirements do not need to run
Self Hosting: Episode 0
As with all endeavors, success is not guaranteed. However, without a plan... failure is.
In this series I hope to provide instruction on how to setup and self host an environment that can provide everything necessary to function in todays connected world. While I will be simplifying setups and configurations,