Re: Tarsnap died

2024-04-11 Thread jerry
- Looks like I needed to run tarsnap-keygen again. Also do "tarnsnap --fsck" to fix the cache. Now it seems to be running normally. - JerryK On 2024-04-11 08:47, jerry wrote: OK, I have fixed all my email issues. I now have operative SPF, DKIM, & DMARC. And the

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-04-11 Thread jerry
OK, I have fixed all my email issues. I now have operative SPF, DKIM, & DMARC. And the big ISPs seem to be happy with it. I am getting regular DMARC reports from yahoo and gmail & all is well. I started up a new Tarsnap account. My existing tarsnap installation seems unable to talk to it

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-08 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings [trimming the CCs...] This thread popped back into my head today, when I received a regular reminder from another service I use, that it was about to renew. The alignment of emails prompts me to offer the observations below as points of information, rather than necessarily

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-07 Thread tarsnap
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024, at 9:58 AM, Scott Wheeler wrote: > >> On Mar 6, 2024, at 07:10, tars...@sehe.nl wrote: >> >> >> I will remind you that calling a missing feature "insane" is not usually >> part of "reasonable customer feedback", so I might have been a little more >> curt in my response

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-07 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via tarsnap-users
Seems like there's a simple solution to this: I have a calendar item that pops up every month and reminds me to check my balance. When it gets low, I recharge it with enough to last me for anywhere from 3-12 months at a whack because sometimes I'm busy when the reminder pops up. It's worked

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 11:55 AM Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > ... I am extremely sympathetic to focusing on the core service instead of > having to build, maintain, and protect systems that store secrets needed > for payment. > There is no need to store payment information. A token corresponding

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 4, 2024, at 14:28, Scott Wheeler wrote: > it’s kind of redonkulous that there’s not an auto-recharge option. There are some who consider automatic renewal or recharge to be evil. I am not going to argue either way for any particular service, but I want to point out that this is one of

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-06 Thread Scott Wheeler
> On Mar 6, 2024, at 07:10, tars...@sehe.nl wrote: > > > I will remind you that calling a missing feature "insane" is not usually part > of "reasonable customer feedback", so I might have been a little more curt in > my response just to balance things out. There you go, I called it inane,

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-05 Thread tarsnap
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024, at 4:03 AM, Scott Wheeler wrote: > >> To me the audience for Tarsnap is the privacy minded part of the public. >> Having payment details on file sort of contradicts the mission. That's (I'm >> guessing) why tarsnap is 100% pre-paid. >> >> You're free not to use it, or

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-05 Thread Scott Wheeler
> To me the audience for Tarsnap is the privacy minded part of the public. > Having payment details on file sort of contradicts the mission. That's (I'm > guessing) why tarsnap is 100% pre-paid. > > You're free not to use it, or create your own process for regularly topping > up the balance.

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-05 Thread tarsnap
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024, at 9:28 PM, Scott Wheeler wrote: > Tarsnap is the only important service we use with a billing system this inane > … and people have been complaining about it for at least a decade. To me the audience for Tarsnap is the privacy minded part of the public. Having payment

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-04 Thread Scott Wheeler
> On Mar 4, 2024, at 21:03, jerry wrote: > > That means that when I get my email house in order, > I should be able to comfortably use Tarsnap again. Except that it’s kind of redonkulous that there’s not an auto-recharge option. That obviously doesn’t completely side-step the issue since

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-04 Thread jerry
OK, Yet another email problem. I've been fighting with that for a while. I've been running my own email server since the 90's. That's not as easy as it used to be. New security protocols are becoming necessary. The original symptom was that outgoing emails would be dumped on the floor

Re: Tarsnap died

2024-03-04 Thread Colin Percival
On 3/4/24 11:13, jerry wrote: This "one terse email then delete your data a week later" thing just didn't work this time. My mail server is failing to connect to your mail server, but just in case you can read this via the mailing list archives: You should have received emails on 2023-10-19

Tarsnap died

2024-03-04 Thread jerry
Greetings tarsnap users. Not Happy. But it's my own fault I've been using tarsnap for many years. In general, I do NOT trust the "cloud", and do not use google/microsoft/etc to store any sensitive data. The combination of encryption on my home server and deduplication is compelling.