From time to time you might need to install (ie. for testing) a non-stable version of software onto Yunohost. In many cases this can be both a scary and complicated process. With Yunohost, however, it’s shocking easy and almost feels ‘friendly’ like the rest of their user interface. There are two ways to do it: With a command line while…
Planning Your Yunohost Install for Small Business
Yunohost is an amazing self-hosting platform with an incredible number of super valuable tools for small businesses ranging from website hosting to email hosting to email marketing. I’m really trying to force myself to move my business over to this platform to better protect company and customer data, as well as other financial savings. However, while going through the process…
Installing Roundcube in Yunohost
Roundcube is amazing email webmail software. Not only does it have encryption (awesome) but it also seems to have DKIM and the full meal deal. Best of all it comes with Yunohost as a one-click and well supported install. It is a ‘one-click install’ on Yunohost… However… you should consider before you begin, if you want it sitting on your…
How to set up Successful Email for Yunohost with Digital Ocean Droplet
To help making your Yunohost email server have more successful deliverability rates, I knew I had to set up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. I had done this elsewhere and for other email servers, but not Yunohost. Here is a log of my journey and how to do it. Optional Section: Set up DKIM for Email Signing Some say DKIM is…
Setting up Yunohost on Digital Ocean
This is the main tutorial I followed to install Yunohost (“YH” for rest of blog) on a Digital Ocean (“DO” for rest of blog) droplet, and this blog is basically my expansion notes to go with it to help myself and others who might need. Before you begin the rest of the YH setup work, make sure your owned domain…
Installing Signature PDF in Yunohost
Signature PDF is great. It allows you to do basic PDF annotations and digital signatures on said PDFS. It’s not quite a full ‘suite’ yet like Docusign and Sign Request, it seems to be only in French right now (it’s easy to figure out graphically) however, it’s pretty amazing for quick sign-offs. You can save your vectored signature (create it…
Installing Send in Yunohost
Send is super cool. Not only is it one of the quickest, most simple and intuitive interfaces for sending large files that I’ve ever seen, but it also apparently integrates with ‘filelink’ in Thunderbird which I’ve always been tempted to try. Now that I see it’s a one-click install in YH, I wanted to go for it on my own.…
Installing CryptPad in Yunohost
Cryptpad is an amazing opensource software suite. You can share real-time spreadsheets, text documents and other stuff. Sometimes you want to do a quick brainstorming, or other times you just want to build a simple database in a familiar ‘excel’ like format. This does all of that, plus, it’s encrypted and completely anonymous. This would be an amazing quick tool…
How to Set Up a BIMI Logo with Inkscape
BIMI is some kind of logo plus security add on feature to email. In short, it uses a very specific kind of logo format for your company to a) show up visually in someone’s inbox when you send them an email (if they have that functionality) and b) increase email security / authenticity. So it seems good. I was surprised…
How to get DKIM setup for email using Digital Ocean
EDIT DEC 14, 2022: It seems I might have missed an important piece of understanding about DKIM. I am currently working on this. If you see this message, my new understanding is this: DKIM is handled on the email server Therefore, if you are not running an email server and using a 3rd party ESP, then the DKIM private key…