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…
Tag: email
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…
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…
How to do DMARC, SPF and BIMI settings (and other stuff) in Digital Ocean DNS settings
SECOND EDIT: DEC 12, 2022 FIRST EDIT DATE: Sept 1, 2022 I had a hard time with this one for some reason. My email provider (Webnames) has an email setup page which showed the SPF records without quotations. Even their tech support told me not to use quotations in the txt file entries in my server! I guess they hadn’t…
Changing or Fixing the Site URL for SuiteCRM
Recently I moved my SuiteCRM from a slow shared host over to a Digital Ocean droplet to speed things up. It worked very well, by the way. So fast, and probably I save 10 minutes per day just not waiting for server, haha. Anyways, everything went pretty well except one thing: the emails that were sent out from the Workflow…
CONVERT HARVESTED BULK EMAILS INTO USABLE SPREADSHEET IN A FEW STEPS
Did someone send you a bulk email and foolishly leave all the recipients exposed? Do you want to grab those recipients and use for your own great purposes? Good news, it’s not so hard to do! Here’s what you’ll need: A text editor (gedit on ubuntu) Spreadsheet software (Libre Office is the one I’ll use here since it’s both free…
INSTALLING ROUNDCUBE 1.4 VERSION ON YUNOHOST
Thanks to the work of Brian we can now install the newest version of Roundcube on Yunohost. Why is this so exciting? Newer, fresher UI PGP encryption Functionality with the enigma plugin Mobile friendly skin In short, it makes your self-hosted email awesome on a mobile too, regardless of whether you have an email app that works or not with…
HOW TO INSTALL NEW ROUNDCUBE VERSION ON SHARED HOST CPANEL WITH PGP KEYS WORKING
So, you want to not wait for RoundCube to release 1.4 to cpanel, or, you have Roundcube on your cpanel setup and for whatever reason the Enigma plugin that makes the PGP stuff work – isn’t working. Whatever your reason is, the solution is not insanely hard, but it took me about a week and a lot of hours to…
What Message Does Your Email Address Send About You?
I have come back to this awesome comic for nearly 10 years now. I finally had to log it here because it’s worthy. I will eventually expand this to other areas of tech, but for now enjoy this!