My Thoughts

Next new Homepage

More than three years passed without any interesting. But now I migrated from Wordpress to Hugo with the Hextra Theme. Migration was not this hard, as there are only a few posts. I will write a guide in a few days…

July 10, 2026

Mastodon

Everyone is migrating to the mammoth, and so I am. Feel free to join me participate my true boredom: https://social.linux.pizza/@stubbi_org

January 11, 2023

Another new Homepage

Long time nothing happened. Due to lag of time, I discontinued my old self written website and migrate everything to Wordpress. As of my website is not this big, it will be completed in a few days.

January 10, 2023

SMTP and HTTPS with DANE

Some days ago I dealt with DNSSEC and DANE in conjunction with SMTP and HTTPS. It is pretty easy to configure BIND with DNSSEC. Add to your zone configuration these lines: auto-dnssec maintain; inline-signing yes; key-directory "/etc/bind/keys"; Generate the zone-signing key and the key-signing key in /etc/bind/keys:

October 20, 2015

Z-Push with Dovecot and nginx

Today I tried to activate push mail for my private mail server. And what should I say… It works like a charm. Prerequisites: Dovecot IMAP NGINX configured with SSL To activate get the latest version of Z-Push. Unpack to /usr/share/z-push. Now you need to make some configuration changes: At least you should change the backend provider in /usr/share/z-push/config.php: define('BACKEND_PROVIDER', 'BackendIMAP'); If you use SSL with your IMAP change the configuration in /usr/share/z-push/backend/imap/config.php:

February 4, 2015

SFTP chroot

To put some users in a chroot for sftp you need to adjust a few settings in your sshd_config: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match Group sftponly ForceCommand internal-sftp -l VERBOSE ChrootDirectory /srv/sftp X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no After that you can add a user for sftp and give him a home directory under your chroot. Use / as home directory just to ensure that the user is in the right directory after sftp login:

May 14, 2014

Outlook Web App with Chrome on Linux

Today I noticed that Outlook Web App (owa) does not work with Google Chrome on Linux properly. Owa switches to the light version automatically without any chance to unselect the checkbox. A simple trick is to change the user agent from your browser to anything which is supported by owa, e.g. Firefox 3.6, which is in fact supported on all platforms. Now you should have the full functionality of owa in Chrome on Linux.

April 2, 2014

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