Regular readers of this blog have probably noticed that it is now served from a different IP address… Okay, okay, I'm kidding! This blog doesn't have any regular readers, of course.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I recently spent quite some effort to move all my stuff — softwaremaniacs.org, highlightjs.org, their supporting databases and, most importantly, my personal email — to a new and shiny Linode instance under control of an up-to-date Ubuntu.

Here's the (heavily compressed) war story.

Ding!

It all started with an email from letsencrypt politely telling me my client software (certbot) must be too old as it uses an obsolete version of their protocol, and it's going to break when they drop support for it. Little did I know at that moment just how hairy a yak I was staring in the eyes…

Steps and stumbles

Outcomes

Next

I feel like I need to write my own mail server setup guide… Oh well…

Comments: 5

  1. Alexander

    This blog doesn't have any regular readers, of course.

    It has at least one using good old RSS.

  2. Ivan Sagalaev

    It has at least one using good old RSS.

    Thanks! I'm trying to resume writing more :-)

  3. Boris

    RSS +1

  4. Anton

    Setting up properly configured mail server wasn't an easy walk 15 years ago. Looks like it's still pretty much the same headache

    BTW +1 for RSS

  5. Ilya

    RSS ftw

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