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 1.3 handshakes. According to the changelog, this was fixed in August 2019.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWelcome 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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