Would you use a self-hosted tool that ingests the mbox (gmail) file from google takeout, indexes all emails and let you search through it? The idea is that it would be an email archive. I feel like it would be useful for people who want to de-google. Being able to search through your emails without having to import them to your new provider is something that I would appreciate. I don't like clutter, and I barely have to pull old emails. Let me know your thoughts! #gmail #selfhost #homelab

Would you use a self-hosted tool that ingests the mbox (gmail) file from google takeout, indexes all emails and let you search through it? The idea is that it would be an email archive. I feel like it would be useful for people who want to de-google. Being able to search through your emails without having to import them to your new provider is something that I would appreciate. I don't like clutter, and I barely have to pull old emails. Let me know your thoughts! #gmail #selfhost #homelab

Self-Host Weekly (5 September 2025)

#Newsletter feedback addressed, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #rwMarkable - a checklist and to-do app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-09-05/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #smarthome #development #app #apps #software #feedback

Furries and Gentlegeeks, stop what you’re doing. Reddit pointed out the holly reason for 3D printers to exist: The 6-bays ThinkNAS

#DIY #NAS #HomeLab #SelfHost #Lenovo #ThinkCentre

What #OpenSource and #SelfHost can do. Had an idea, discussed it here. Seemed to rhyme with people. Booked two domains. Created a landing page with #Jekyll and CI/CD from a #git repo on my #Forgejo instance. Created logo with #Inkscape. Added #letsencrypt certificate. Put it on my VPS (Virtual Private Server) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, (#RHEL) where it is now served with #Nginx. Git repo mirrored to #Codeberg so all can join. In under 8h.

https://devbnb.eu

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/devbnb

What #OpenSource and #SelfHost can do. Had an idea, discussed it here. Seemed to rhyme with people. Booked two domains. Created a landing page with #Jekyll and CI/CD from a #git repo on my #Forgejo instance. Created logo with #Inkscape. Added #letsencrypt certificate. Put it on my VPS (Virtual Private Server) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, (#RHEL) where it is now served with #Nginx. Git repo mirrored to #Codeberg so all can join. In under 8h.

https://devbnb.eu

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/devbnb

New blog post: "IPv6 at home — my simple solution" A very minimal, pragmatic solution so I can start working with IPv6 in my network at home. Experts might get a bit irritated and I hope you can channel your wisdom in friendly replies to this post so we can all learn and become better at IPv6, help a n00b!

Replies to this post will show up as comment under the blog post.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/SimpleIPv6AtHome/

#SelfHost#IPv6#HomeNetwork

New blog post: "IPv6 at home — my simple solution" A very minimal, pragmatic solution so I can start working with IPv6 in my network at home. Experts might get a bit irritated and I hope you can channel your wisdom in friendly replies to this post so we can all learn and become better at IPv6, help a n00b!

Replies to this post will show up as comment under the blog post.

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/SimpleIPv6AtHome/

#SelfHost#IPv6#HomeNetwork

Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)

Teaching moments from @elena, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenArchiver - an #email archiving platform, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #development #app #apps #software #fediverse #activitypub

Question for you!

What are the first few commands you immediately do after setting up a new Linux/BSD machine? I don't care if you do it manually or automated with Ansible. I am just curious about what you deem to be the critical first thing :)

Me:
- feed my ssh keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
- immediately change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set
PermitRootLogin Yes,
* PubKeyAuthentication Yes,
* PasswordAuthentication No.
- reboot

Curious what you do first :)

#SelfHost#Admin

Question for you!

What are the first few commands you immediately do after setting up a new Linux/BSD machine? I don't care if you do it manually or automated with Ansible. I am just curious about what you deem to be the critical first thing :)

Me:
- feed my ssh keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
- immediately change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set
PermitRootLogin Yes,
* PubKeyAuthentication Yes,
* PasswordAuthentication No.
- reboot

Curious what you do first :)

#SelfHost#Admin

Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)

Teaching moments from @elena, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenArchiver - an #email archiving platform, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #development #app #apps #software #fediverse #activitypub

So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.

Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.

#selfhosting #nas

Seems my unknown enemy has topped up his botnet account again and is sending thousands of IP addresses to try to brute-force their way in to my mailserver. Blocketyblocking all of them :)

#SelfHost#eMail#Botnet

Happily sending around signed and encrypted emails that use S/MIME certificates that I created myself on my own CA. And as my mail server (that I also run myself) has DKIM, DMARC, SPF set up correctly, that also works. Nice!

#SelfHost#CA#SMIME #x509#eMail

Happily sending around signed and encrypted emails that use S/MIME certificates that I created myself on my own CA. And as my mail server (that I also run myself) has DKIM, DMARC, SPF set up correctly, that also works. Nice!

#SelfHost#CA#SMIME #x509#eMail

Oggi ho lavorato un po' sulla sicurezza della mia installazione di Immich: come prima cosa ho installato Authentik per gestire il single sign on e attivare la MFA. Secondo step, ho configurato l'http server in modo che le interfacce di amministrazione di Immich e Authentik siano accessibili solo dall'IP fisso del lavoro. #selfhost #immich#authentik @localhost

Oggi ho lavorato un po' sulla sicurezza della mia installazione di Immich: come prima cosa ho installato Authentik per gestire il single sign on e attivare la MFA. Secondo step, ho configurato l'http server in modo che le interfacce di amministrazione di Immich e Authentik siano accessibili solo dall'IP fisso del lavoro. #selfhost #immich#authentik @localhost

I feel like I'm getting my geek/nerd vibes back. I created the Cute Homelab, installed RHEL 10, created my own Certificate Authority so I can use certbot in my homelab and now I can create s/mime certificates for signed/encrypted eMail. That's quite some #DigitalSovereignty and #SelfHost realised in just a few weeks 😊 And it's all documented in my gists [1] and on my blog [2] so you can join too! Now a nice cuppa and off to bed!

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[1] https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists
[2] https://jan.wildeboer.net