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Although most of my friends prefer Matrix these days, XMPP is still my favorite way of chatting. You can easily run your own Prosody instance [1] on a $5/month VPS and have a…

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Observed mentions: 2018-11-03 21:05:47 UTC to 2019-11-19 20:26:35 UTC.

01232018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsNov 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2019

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perlgod·Mar 12, 2019Recommendation phrase
Although most of my friends prefer Matrix these days, XMPP is still my favorite way of chatting. You can easily run your own Prosody instance [1] on a $5/month VPS and have a very modern chat experience - offline messages, syncing between devices, OMEMO end-to-end encryption, group chats, push notifications, HTTP file upload, etc. My wife and I use it for all our communications. There are some great clients for Android [2], iOS [3] and Linux/Windows [4] that support all the modern XEPs. Sadly, there aren't any mature, actively developed clients for OS X that I've found. Adium is pretty much abandoned. Monal is in active development though and seems promising. It's so nice to use an open protocol with native clients. Most other self-hosted chat solutions require electron apps, which can be painful to use unless you have top of the line har
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dware. [1] https://github.com/cullum/dank-selfhosted/blob/master/roles/... [2] https://conversations.im/ [3] https://chatsecure.org/ [4] https://gajim.org
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perlgod·Nov 15, 2018
I used to run Postfix + Dovecot + Rspamd with all the bells and whistles enabled [1], but I recently switched to OpenSMTPD + spamd on OpenBSD. Unlike rspamd, which has pluggable modules for everything under the sun (RBLs, word filters, Bayesian filtering + learning), spamd uses plain ol' graylisting with some PF integration to throttle spammers connections to 1 character/second for maximum annoyance. With Rspamd, I never got any spam in my Inbox. With spamd, I get maybe 1 spam mail every two weeks. To me, spamd's ridiculous simplicity is worth the tradeoff. You do have to be careful with graylisting large mailers like Gmail, since they rarely retry the mail from the same IP address. For this, OpenBSD's smtpctl now has the spfwalk [2] command to whitelist the big guys. That's what I use in my current setup [3], which was linked here a few
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days ago. [1] https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide/ [2] https://poolp.org/posts/2018-01-08/spfwalk/ [3] https://github.com/cullum/dank-selfhosted
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