The usual advice on handling scam calls has been to not answer unknown caller id’s or hang up immediately and to not interact, lest the scammers will flag the number as live and will call it more often. However, a recent extensive study out of NC State has confirmed what I’d always suspected and that — Continue reading »
From Sendmail To G Suite Gmail
📆 September 17, 2020
In a previous post I covered updating my self-hosted Sendmail program to the newest version with some additions such as TLS 1.2 and DKIM. The version 8.15.2 at the time of my update was nearly five years old. Interestingly, less than two months after my update Sendmail released a new version 8.16.1 . Now it — Continue reading »
Super Organic Raspberries
📆 September 7, 2020
Hiking has a lot of benefits, but if done at the right time, at the right place and with a bit of attention, treasures like this super organic cluster of raspberries can be had for the price of zero. No rinsing required! — Continue reading »
Does It Make Sense To Self-Host Mail Server?
📆 April 22, 2020
I have operated hashemian.com for over 2 decades now, earlier on hosted servers and eventually on my own server. During that time the domain has also been email capable, accepting and delivering emails sent to/from addresses such as [email protected]. This was also originally hosted but was eventually ported to my own server. The product of — Continue reading »
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