Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Kent Borg
On 12/18/20 6:59 PM, John Byrnes wrote: Are there any gotchas with this approach? I would think only exposing SMTP on the remote computer would be the best thing to do, and make everything else only accessible via VPN. I haven't set it up, so I don't know. I think I would want at least ports

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread John Byrnes
On 18.12.2020 07:52, Kent Borg wrote: Being one of those weirdos who runs his own e-mail servers, I've been getting frustrated that there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to get a reliable static IP address at home. I have been thinking the way to do it might be to still run the server at

Re: [Discuss] dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Daniel Barrett wrote: > >>On 12/17/20 9:38 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > >>>imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, > >>> ... > >>> > >>> Does anybody know if this indicates a problem that needs fixing? > > >Kent Borg wrote: > >> I see them in my log file. My gu

Re: [Discuss] dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?

2020-12-18 Thread Daniel Barrett
>>On 12/17/20 9:38 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: >>> I've started using dovecot for the first time (on localhost, to serve >>> IMAP folders locally) and keep seeing this message repeated in the >>> log: >>>imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, ... >>> >>> Does anybo

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 12/18/2020 12:07 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Matthew Gillen wrote: >> On 12/18/2020 10:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >>> That's one of many possible ways to use it. >>> >>> Other uses: >>> >>> - point-to-point VPN tunnel >>> - hub-and-spoke VPN with routing >>> - site-to-site VPN with routing >>> - full

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 12/18/2020 10:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > That's one of many possible ways to use it. > > > > Other uses: > > > > - point-to-point VPN tunnel > > - hub-and-spoke VPN with routing > > - site-to-site VPN with routing > > - full-mesh VPN (requires external tools to keep

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 12/18/2020 10:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > That's one of many possible ways to use it. > > Other uses: > > - point-to-point VPN tunnel > - hub-and-spoke VPN with routing > - site-to-site VPN with routing > - full-mesh VPN (requires external tools to keep all the config > manageable) > >> Howe

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Kent Borg
On 12/18/20 8:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Another is to run a full mail server on the remote VM, and use it as a relay for your house mail server. I've thought about that, but like the idea of the e-mail not being in-the-clear in a VM. Not that my personal e-mail is a juicy target for the TLAs,

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > I hadn't heard of Wireguard before. It looks cool. > > Being one of those weirdos who runs his own e-mail servers, I've been > getting frustrated that there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to get a > reliable static IP address at home. I have been thinking the way to do it

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Kent Borg
I hadn't heard of Wireguard before. It looks cool. Being one of those weirdos who runs his own e-mail servers, I've been getting frustrated that there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to get a reliable static IP address at home. I have been thinking the way to do it might be to still run t

Re: [Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Gillen wrote: > > > On 12/17/2020 12:47 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > > P.S. I get *lots* of break in attempts (that's how I know my connection > > is live), but my system has very few users, all with good passwords, so > > I don't worry. > > I've struggled with this; with so few users it seem

[Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

2020-12-18 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 12/17/2020 12:47 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > P.S. I get *lots* of break in attempts (that's how I know my connection > is live), but my system has very few users, all with good passwords, so > I don't worry. I've struggled with this; with so few users it seems silly to expose certain things to th