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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • One of the nice things about Gmail at the time, was that you could access your emails when not home. If you were at a friend’s or on holiday at a net café, all you needed was to know your email and password.

    That sounds silly, but at the time the majority of ISP mailboxes were pop only. Or those Webmails you could get were attached to what you would now think of comically small mailboxes. Full history Webmail added a convenience we didn’t get before.








  • If you don’t mind having email go through Gmail etc, then you might not want to full host, but just run a local IMAP server. There are some pop to SMTP solutions you can use to pull your emails (fetchmail.) you can then use your account as an outbound relay. Keep in mind you’ll only be able to set this up for a single account if you use something like Gmail.

    If you buy a business product like workspace or m365, you should be able to setup relay/hybrid connectors for multiple accounts.







  • It depends where you want the complexity.

    Since ssh is a layer4 tunnel if you don’t run a proxy on your home box, you’ll need a new network connection for each service, if you are fine with that, I would set it up only on the VPS. This means if the tunnel goes down, you should at least get 502 error rather than a timeout or connection refused.

    Alternatively you could forward 80, 443 to a proxy service on the home server. That would require two ports for the ssh.

    You can drop it to a single ssh connection by having a proxy on both and just have the VPS proxy Http and https to the same port on the home server.