Re: Unicode to ASCII

2021-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Silas wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT fileout > > It seems it is not possible on NetBSD 9.0 iconv :-( It looks like //TRANSLIT is a GNU glibc extension not available in NetBSD's version of libc. Sorry. > $ echo 'pão' | iconv -f UTF-8

Re: Unicode to ASCII

2021-02-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Todd Gruhn wrote: > I extracted the "text" from a large PDF using a NetBSD prog called > pdftotext(1). pdftotext is really awesome. I find "pdftotext -layout" to do a truly excellent job with most PDF files I need to deal with from banks and things here. > I got the desired ASCII text, but it

Re: Daemonizing processes in NetBSD

2021-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > Oh I should have been more clear from the start. This is for rc.d script for > wip/adguardhome. Probably during startup it doesn't really matter, I believe you are correct. During boot time all processes start from the init daemon and will not be attached to a

Re: Daemonizing processes in NetBSD

2021-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > is there any program in base which allows to daemonize programs which don't > detach from console, don't have any "-daemon" option etc.? There are > sysutils/daemond and sysutils/daemonize in pkgsrc of course but do we have > anything like "daemon" in FreeBSD base? > > As

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 03:19:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > So for example it is okay for a mailing list for a domain like > > us...@lists.example.com be hosted on a machine server123.example.net > > at a different hostname and FQDN. That'

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason Mitchell wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Then Thunderbird will *send* mail using again many possible protocols > > but perhaps most typically using an authenticated SMTP to the > > submission port 587 on the configured mail server. Postfix is my > > preference

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jason Mitchell wrote: > Everything you have written is totally accurate, but self signed > certificates for SMTP may be going away. > > The latest version of Thunderbird requires a valid certificate on > the SMTP server it uses. > > (Sorry for the formatting, I can't send mail from my laptop until

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > I get 2 public ips from the cloud provider - one is ipv4 and one ipv6. ... > Is this feasible? But it's all "dual stack networking" these days. Those two software stacks, IPv4 and IPv6, are operated in parallel. I strongly recommend not to try to go with one logical virtual

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > My main requirement from one of the domains is a mailing list. As long as > it merely relays the mails without touching the mail headers / body, can I > get away without implementing all these measures? I have done so once, but > not sure whether it survived based on reputation

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Brett Lymn wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > SPF identifies authorized IP addresses for domains in the message > > envelope. Therefore the reverse DNS pointer record does not matter in > > I used to be postmaster for a large organisation and know for a fact that > even if

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > I am faced with a requirement to merge the mail servers running on 2 VPSes > into 1, with a single ip address on NetBSD 9.1 amd64. Generally this should not be a problem for a single server to handle email for multiple domains. Assuming that one FQDN is chosen to be the exit

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Mayuresh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:53:13AM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > If you set up spf, dkim, and dns correctly you shouldn't have any issues. > > How exactly - meaning if these are set reverse dns check is not applied by > peers or does it mean these mechanisms deal with

Re: Recent web page changes

2020-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Troxel wrote: > At: > > http://wiki.netbsd.org/community/ > > mailinglists are the first thing. But they didn't have an obvious > header, so I can see how they would be missed. Looking at that page now I find that the netbsd-announce link is missing a path part in the href url.