sSMTP is a simple program that punts mail over to a mailhub. I use this on a few Ubuntu hosts. I recently deployed a Raspberry Pi running Raspian that I wanted to enable mail alerting with. I quickly found that it could not send e-mails with sSMTP. At first, I assumed it was my configuration but I investigated and found an issue with TLS handshakes. sSMTP has a known (and fixed) problem with TLS 1.
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In February 2020, my home Internet went down. It wasn’t just my home but the whole neighborhood. Also, this affected both the Fiber & Cable Internet providers that service my area. This outage lasted three days before the services were restored. During that time I used tethering on my phone until I ran out of hotspot data. Then I used my work phone. On day 3 I had less than a gig of hotspot data on my work phone when my Fiber internet came back to life.
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Welcome to my site. I enjoy playing with tech, it’s my hobby. I figured some of the random things I come up with might help others so I decided to blog about it. I plan to discuss the thought process more than the tech because this is where the tradeoffs are made. In tech, there are many ways to accomplish a goal and the tradeoffs made along the way tend to get lost in the shuffle.
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